Dawn of dolour

" Victor, tell me, have you ever truly felt the love I showed you throughout these years ?"

The cold man just stood still while staring at his stepsister hatefully. He was undoubtedly unmoved by her words. In his heart, there was no human more vile than her. Even in the last moments of her life, she was still pretending to be just a simple innocent girl who had been wronged all her life.

"Love ? Adelaide,you know better than anyone what about you did all this time. You don't live anyone, you're just a selfish woman who doesn't care about anyone but yourself. "

The woman clad in blood felt undescribeable despair in her heart. All her life, she never cared for her own desires and preferred to just live for others. Yet, the person she loved the most was calling her a selfish person... that statement alone was enough to break her fragile heart.

Due to the intense sadness, she began to lose rationality and started laughing.

" Selfish ? Hahahah ! I'm selfish ? Tell me, Victor, in what way am I selfish . Have I stolen from another ? Have I hurt even a single person in my entire life ? You know nothing, fool. You've been ignorant all your life. How can you see reason even if it's displayed clearly in front of you. "

The man didn't show even a trace of surprise at the woman's words. Indeed, he couldn't exactly say how was she selfish. He heard countless rumours of her vile deeds. Yet, there was no evidence that proved her wrongdoings. But that didn't matter. He never particularly cared about justice. To him, reputation is what matters. Having a stepsister that ruined his reputation due to her rumoured bad deeds was enough of a reason for him to hate her.

" You murdered children even if you were just just a few years older than them, you stole the fiancés of countless women with your seduction and you even disfigured Bella's face. Now, she couldn't even bear to look at herself in the mirror and it's all your fault! "

" Wha- ... Hahaha, all this time, I've trust you. I've always believed that even if the whole world betrayed me, you would never betray me. Yet, here I am,... standing on top of a magic circle which will curse me for all eternity and I didn't even do anything to deserve this. "

She then torn apart the long sleeve of her dress revealing various injuries that was never seen by anyone except herself and her late parents. She had many scars, bite marks and even a burn on her arm. The sight left the man in a state of speechlessness. Even if he had seen the face of a woman who was disfigured, it was nothing compared to the severity of the marks on his stepsister's body.

" Two days ago, your beloved Bella tried to whip me to death, only to fail thanks to my healing magic ability. Then, she even drugged me and offered me to an old man as a *****. Three weeks ago, a group of engaged men kidnapped me and tried to make me their mistress. Luckily, I was able to escape. Yet, the woman of those men were jealous of how much those men cherished my beauty and tried to disfigure me. In spite of that, I still managed to save myself but as I was holding the knife in my hand, Bella suddenly rammed towards me and I instinctively slashed at her to protect myself. But, those things never really mattered to me. The only thing I cared about constantly was the incident 20 years ago. That night, I was saving a young boy's life who got caught up in a fire. Despite the fierce flames surrounding him, he stared into space expressionlessly. Despite being afraid of fire, I still ran towards that boy as fast as I could to save him. However, my luck wasn't very good that day. A piece of burning wood fell on my arm and I gritted my teeth in pain but didn't dare to stop running just to save that boy. When I got hold of the boy, I quickly carried him to safety without healing my arm. In the end, his death was avoided but with a heavy price that I still bore now. The burn wasn't healed on time and the mark never left my body. Tell me... can you guess the name of that boy ? "

The confused man just stayed silent and looked to his side. His subordinates spoke nothing just lowered their head silently. Getting no response from his aides, he just straightforwardly asked about the identity of the boy.

"Who is he ? "

In truth, those subordinates knew of every single thing that happened to the woman but none of them was dating enough to interfere as nobody wanted to offend their heartless employer. Each one of them knew that if an individual offended their boss, not only would they suffer but also 3 generations of their familes can be considered doomed.

Suddenly, a voice spoke a familiar name and everyone's attention was turned towards him.

" Victor Rilles."

The cold man suddenly turned violent as soon as he heard the name. He quickly grabbed the defenceless man by the collar and started questioning him.

" Are you looking for hell, dumbass ? Do you not know what name is that ? That's MY name! Why the heck would I be involved in a fire 20 years ago when I was adopted that year, you ingrate ?! "

Although it was a hurt expression was evidently showed on his face. He kept silent. He didn't even bother looking at the violent man in the eyes. His complexion was slowly turning pale yet, he didn't bother breathing. He just stayed still while being raised in mid air by the collar. It was as if he already decided that he'd rather die than surrender to this lawless man this time.

In the meantime, the lady just shook her head in disappointment. She knew that the beast-like man was ignorant but she never expected him to be unaware of his own past to the point that even his subordinates knew him better than he does. In that moment, she knew, even if there was any warrior brave enough to tell him the truth, he wouldn't have believed him anyways. So, she turned a blind eye towards the attitude of the man's cowardly subordinates. That was until a foolish man signed himself up for a deathwish by telling the violent man his own name before he got adopted by the woman's family. She just watched the brave yet foolish man's actions quietly. However, when the man was truly gonna die from suffocation, she couldn't just sit back and watch anymore.

" Thank you, Leonard Genes. May you live happily with your loved ones. "

As soon as she was done saying those words, she clicked her finger and the man who was previously on the verge on death disappeared into a gust of ashes.

The fury-stricken man was slightly surprised by the vanishing of the man. At the same time, he knew of the only person that could such a spell on such short notice so, he just turned to face that person again.

" Where did you sent him ? "

" Haven, where you can never reach him or his blood-related family members nor his loved ones. "

An annoyed expression was pasted on the man's face. He originally wanted to torture the living daylights out of the man's body. However, his wishes was suddenly challenged by a lying witch who was about to die and be cursed for all eternity.

" Tsk...why bother ? Saving him isn't going to benefit you in any way, b*tch. "

" I know. It's just a disgrace for such a brave man like him to die by the hands of a monster like you, Victor. Even a dog doesn't bites the hand that fed him. "

" Who are you calling be a lowly dog , you lying B*tch ? "

" Victor Rilles, I saved you out of kindness that night. Never would've I ever imagined that you'd forget that just because my family never mentioned it at your face. I must've been truly been blind to save you that day. How I regret it. "

In truth, the woman never regretted her decision that night. She was happy that she was able to save a young boy's future. Yet, she was slightly disappointed that things turned out worse than her fantasy of a happy family.

The only reason she was insulting the monster of a man was to taunt him into either getting into the magic circle or flaw the magic flow of the magic circle. As soon as either of those happen, she could surely escape easily. However, such a move was risky. There was a possibility that his emotions might cause the magic circle's magic flow to accelerate and lead to her doom.

Unfortunately, she lost the gamble. The overwhelming angry inside the man accelerated the magic flow and the magic circle quickly lighted up as the magic power required was finally sufficient. Seeing this, the man's anger which faded as he grinned sinisterly.

" Heh, you lost, Adelaide. It's the end. May you never find happiness for eternity. "

Then, everything went black. The woman's eyes started crying bloody tears blinding her eyes and pain unlike any other started biting away at her sanity. She shouted numerous times in vainas no one came to help her and when the pain finally stopped, she died.

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