Lady Devil - Chapter 154

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As usual, that day his sister fell asleep earlier than Johannes. With a face smeared with fake tears, she smiled faintly and whispered to him until just before falling asleep.

“Yes, Johannes, you should welcome me… Not rudely greet me half-heartedly like you just did.”

And in his arms, unable to bring himself to strangle her neck or fully embrace her, merely fidgeting restlessly not knowing what to do, she alone seemed satisfied as she slowly closed her eyes and quickly escaped into the world of deep sleep.

“I missed you, Johan…”

It was almost like her last words.

Johannes lay straight with his sister attached to his side. His limbs bearing her weight were stiff as wood. Finding it difficult to control the twisting sensation in his gut, he clenched his jaw almost to the point of grinding his teeth.

Tracing her tightly closed eyelids with just his gaze was an agonizing feeling. How could this be… How did I end up missing this moment like this? What exactly held me back and made me hesitate? His stomach was boiling with rage that couldn’t be drawn out. Eventually, he abruptly sat up as if he was about to die.

He couldn’t possibly let this night go to waste. It took only an instant for his hand to reach for his sleeping sister’s neck. This was not anger that could be simply let go due to some kind of incomprehensible, previously unnamed resistance that he himself could not even accurately identify. It was a depth that made him tremble, like a grudge held for hundreds of years. However, despite his seemingly explosive momentum, he ended up frozen in place.

“Who are you?”

Suddenly, he recalled the Duke’s question.

Right. Once in the library, Duke Gustavus had asked him as if testing him. The man who dared to decorate his background with sacred, unfathomable artifacts. He didn’t know why the gaze of that man, so cruelly high that it looked down more indifferently than iron cutting through human flesh, came to mind at this very moment.

“Who are you?”

Johannes’ under-eye twitched slightly.

“Da…”

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