DEMIGODS: The Empyrean's Sanctity

Chapter 30: The King and his Servitour

『AIZELLE』

The scent of roses lingered in my nose, but it was strong and nauseating instead of its mellow smell. I sighed and focused on the road ahead. Eros… I am now going to accomplish what I’ve promised. So, just me wherever you are right now. I stole a glance at Celine. After witnessing my final form inside the Labyrinth, she never said anything to our friends, but that’s not all I’ve got.

It was just a mere part of my strength.

I never wasted all these years becoming nothing. This battle would be mine alone.

“—zelle!” Agad akong napatigil sa paglalakad nang higitin ni Aizen ang braso ko. Nang lingunin ko siya’y agad kong napansin na lahat kami ay nakatigil at lahat sila ay nakatingin sa akin. “Ayos ka lang ba?”

“Yes.”

“Are you sure? You look—”

“Dude, she already answered you. Stop being a paranoid twin,” Phoenix said, making Aizen grimace at him. Phoenix smiled while looking at me. I shook my head and brushed Aizen’s hair without saying anything before turning my back on them.

“I’m fine,” I mumbled.

Strange. Most of them found my relationship with Phoenix strange, especially since he favors me even more than Sue, his girlfriend. And it is funny how they initially thought that I have feelings for him because I am always rejecting Light.

But… but I just don’t want to risk Phoenix’s life for mine.

I don’t want to make the same mistake committed by Tita Freya.

Diretso akong tumingin sa harapan, marami ang hindi kaaya-aya na palamuti sa paligid. Isang pahiwatig na ang lugar na ito ay pinaghaharian ni Asmodeus. Isang malalim na buntong-hininga ang kumawala sa akin.

Naiiba si Asmodeus sa pitong Kins. Kung si Satan ay hindi kayang masaktan ng iba maliban sa King Vessel, si Asmodeus ay hindi kayang mahawakan kung may pagnanasa ka sa iyong katawan, na kahit isa ka pang King Vessel o pinakamalakas na nilalang hindi mo magagawang masaktan o mahawakan si Asmodeus hanggang may nararamdaman kang pagnanasa.

And out of all beings, the only one Asmodeus couldn’t stand was the Pillar of Love, Sophia.

The only being that can control her emotions, the only servitour who managed to love without killing her king vessel, the person that Aizen loathed a lot.

Our mother.

I frustratingly bit my lower lip and looked at Aizen. Why do you hate her so much?

“Light, do you have plan?” I heard Celine asked. “Paano natin lalaban ang Kin of Lust?”

I bitterly smiled.

Humans, demigods, and all beings are a candidate as vessels of the seven sins, but they are few that are devoured by it, colliding inside them as they lose control of themselves. Yet, out of all sins, the most terrifying and hardest to ignore is Lust. All have pleasures and desires… but I am different.

Lust was not living within me.

Madalas akong tanungin noon ng mga kaibigan ko at ibang mga demigods kung paano kami naging anak nina Eros at Psyche samantalang si Hedone lamang ang kilalang anak nila. Pero sa totoo lang, hindi kami tunay na anak nila. At katulad ni Ice, blessed child lamang kami nina Eros.

Anak kami nina Ainsley at Sophia, anak kami ng isang demigod at seraphim.

Mula sa mga kuwento ni Eros noon, may utang na loob sila sa aming ina kaya’t kinupkop niya kami. At bukod do’n ay dahil sa kakaibang bagay sa sistema ko. Eros gave me the blessing of Love in order to fully eradicate the missing sin inside of me.