BXBX NOVEL Chapter 177 - Everyone's Morning
"Good morning," Arnold greeted.
"Morning."
"What\'s up? Why are you staring at me like you are going to eat me up?" Arnold asked with a grin on his face.
"I do want to eat you up, but I will wait for five more years," Rosemary replied.
"You can still eat up, you know? I am an old man from inside anyway."
"It\'s still different. Your small needle can\'t satisfy me yet," Rosemary tittered.
"That hurts."
Rosemary caressed Arnold\'s hair and said with a gentle smile on her face: "What will you do now?"
"I don\'t know. We are still on the run; hiding from everything. But we can\'t keep this up. I have to put an end to this," Arnold asserted.
Arnold was the prince of the kingdom, and he has been on the run ever since the kingdom was attacked.
"We can ask Zeus," Rosemary suggested. "I am sure he will help us."
"I am not sure about that," Arnold muttered.
"Are you saying he won\'t help us?"
"He has changed a lot ever since we last saw him. Not only his appearance but his personality and mentality too," Arnold asserted in a solemn voice.
"Yeah." Rosemary agreed. "He even has multiple women now."
"His eyes have no life, his smile has no happiness, and his emotions have no feelings." After a brief pause, he added, "Unless he is with the girls."
"I think he will help us if we ask him. You said that the night had hybrid monsters, and he used them to attack the kingdom. So I am sure Zeus would love to help since the monsters are involved."
Nero hadn\'t spent much time with Rosemary, Rhea, Pavel, and Arnold— even before he was sealed. He had only traveled with them for a few months for the monster expedition. However, Nero knew Rosemary and Rhea a long time before that.
"Let\'s not make our morning bad by talking about that." Arnold climbed on top of Rosemary and uttered, "I want a good morning kiss from you."
"You are too small for a kiss," Rosemary replied.
"Oh? So it\'s okay if you do it, but when I want to do it, \'I am too small\', huh?" Arnold remarked as he forced himself on Rosemary.
"Indeed," Rosemary sneered and tried to push Arnold back with a grin on her face.
"Hey, I have been thinking this for a while; that you can make me big using alchemy, right?" Arnold asked curiously.
"Yeah. But I won\'t do it, ever," Rosemary replied with a straight face.
"Why not?"
"We… Us sorceresses have no feelings or emotions. I didn\'t feel anything when Zeus killed my mother, nor did I cry when my close friends died. But… it\'s different when I am with you."
"The witches have cursed all the sorceresses to be like that, and that curse is eternal, linked by birth. But each sorceress has one person they love; it can be anything. And for me… it\'s you. So I am never using alchemy on you. There is always a price for using alchemy, an equivalent exchange, and I am not betting your life on anything."
After a brief silence, Rosemary uttered, "You know what happened to Pavel after Rhea selfishly used alchemy on him."
"How long does he have?"
"Probably a week." She answered, "After that, he will disappear."
Meanwhile, Pavel opened the door and entered the room.
He saw Rhea sleeping on the bed and smiled: \'This scene never gets old.\'
He walked to the bed and sat beside Rhea. But the movement on the bed caused RHea to wake up.
She looked at Pavel with her still sleepy eyes and muttered, "You are back?"
"Yeah. I was missing you."
Rhea moved a little and placed her head on Pavel\'s lap.
"It\'s time to wake up," Pavel uttered.
"I don\'t want to wake up. I want to stay like this," Tears fell from her eyes as she said, "For forever."
"Rhea~" Pavel gently patted Rhea\'s head and said, "It\'s okay. You are strong enough to live without me."
"I am not. I can\'t live without you! I need you to be with me!" Rhea wailed.
"Don\'t worry. I am not dying; I will just disappear. I won\'t feel any pain or suffer. And I will always stay with you."
"You are lying! You will disappear and never come back. And there will be no way to bring you back."
Pavel hugged Rhea and wiped her tears, then said with a gentle smile on his face: "I am happy right now. All my moments with you are precious, and I will never forget them."
He bit his lips and continued, "I wasn\'t supposed to exist in the first place; I was a mistake. But I lived and survived."
"I always wondered \'why do I exist?\'. But when I met you, I finally got my answer. You helped me live all these years, and that\'s enough for me. Please stop torturing yourself by finding a way to prolong my life. I have lived a happy life, and now I want you to live a happy life— with or without me."
When Nero asked Pavel to take him to the labyrinth to get his weapon, Pavel knew that if he went, he would never see Rhea again. But, he still agreed, and Rhea didn\'t say anything.
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The wind was wild and cold, and the sky was cloudy and dark. It seemed like it was the rainy season, and it was about to rain soon.
It was evening, just before the rush hours, so the streets weren\'t busy.
There were different colonies of houses with various classes of people living in them.
Out of all the colonies, there was one colony that was standing out because of the big luxurious houses.
Among those houses, there was someone standing in front of a house with a horrified look on his face.
"Why…" He muttered, "Why am I here, in my old world?!"
He was Nero, and he found himself standing in front of the house of his previous world.
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