Sacrifice: Time of Mine

Chapter 268: Edora's Story

"I will show you what abilities true villains have."

Tamya then focused on her Conditioned Elesk, Envy.

Mettany frowned, "You're crossing the lines. Give your all so that I can smack your face with it. I will show you my true power too!" 

She then focused on imagining Avoin doing something to her.

"Hehe... haha!" her face reddened and simultaneously, the heat was being exerted from her body.

Meanwhile, Edora felt out of place, 'I don't have any more power-ups. I guess I'll just not exist.' her eyes rolled in another direction.

While the two were concentrating on their power, Edora sneakily went to Avion.

She sat down beside him where the ground was smeared with blood. However, she herself was already covered in blood so she didn't care.

"Hello, Relle." she whispered to his ear but Avion's finger pushed her forehead away.

"What do you want?" Avion didn't even look at her.

"I just want to speak with you. Is that bad?" Edora lightly laughed, knowing that Avion doesn't deny that he's Relle.

"Aren't you supposed to be fighting there?"

"They have their own world now so I let them be."

Avion glanced at her and said, "So?"

Edora lightly smiled, "I'm just wondering. Do you hate me?"

"I do."

"Without any hesitance..." Edora's smile vanished, "Why?"

"You should know that I can control time, right?"

"Yeah, that you're the son of the Lord Sorcerer and came from another world. Honestly, I don't care about that."

"You don't?" Avion's brows raised.

"I mean, so what?" Edora nonchalantly leaned back to her arms, "What's that got to do with me?"

"I guess, you're right..." Avion nodded and came back to the previous topic, "Anyway, I can't really die. If I die, time will come back and I will know what to do. So I escape death a lot of times."

Hearing that, Edora remembered when Avion suddenly disappeared when the King of Karan arrived back then, "But..." she curiously asked, "Are you sure you should be revealing this? The people watching us are strong enough to hear our conversation you know."

Avion didn't react which means he already knew this.

Yes, at that point, while Mettany and Tamya were having their own worlds, the inner audience and even the outer audience were questioning if they heard right.

"It's fine, they will eventually know anyway. And do you know how and where I learned that I can't die?" Avion asked.

Edora then frowned, not knowing where Avion will go from there, "How and where?"

At that moment, Old Maytan was sensitive enough to erect a sound barrier around Avion and Edora. The others looked at him and seeing the old man's serious face, no one complained nor retaliated.

"It's when you tried to stab my heart, Edora." Avion stared at her shocked eyes, "You're the first one to kill me and the one who taught me how painful it is to die. Of course, you wouldn't remember but your first attempt succeeded."

"..." Edora was speechless from realization, 'So that's how he evaded me...'

"I was so angry and fearful of you back then. However, I couldn't kill you." Avion sighed and continued, "You're lucky. If you did that now, you would've been dead."

"But why couldn't you kill me back then?"

"I don't know... unlike now, I was very naive and stupid back then. I don't know a lot of things. I just can't kill." Avion explained.

"It's understandable if it's your first time. I may be merciless now but back then, I was traumatized by my first kill. I couldn't sleep for weeks." 

Avion frowned and strangely looked at Edora.

"What?"

"Why are you being kind right now?"

Hearing this made Edora want to laugh as she replied, "Avion, I'm very caring if you just ask Princess Alisera. I'm very straightforward and a realist. I kill whoever stands my way and I care for the people I need."

"That's cold, not straightforward."

"Same thing." Edora replied with a prideful face.

"And... you need me?" Avion raised a brow.

"Yes, you're right... I am very lucky. When you first appeared, I truly hated your guts. I want to kill you. However, as time passed, you opened up something inside me."

"Your masochism?"

"Yes... but no... from birth, I saw my friends, family, and neighbors being oppressed by the nobles. But do you know what I felt?"

"What?"

"I felt disgusted... All they do is complain but can't do anything. Meanwhile, the nobles are working and are using their power.  In the end, we are weak and they are strong. However, I fought back. So I was frequently beaten up as a fragile little girl..." Edora looked below.

"I stupidly charge at the nobles whenever they have wronged my parents so I was beaten up. But the surprising thing is, not only did the nobles beat me up, my parents whom I fought for pleaded for them to stop. Yet, when we came back home, they were the ones who beat me, saying that I was too reckless."

Avion stayed silent while his eyes dazed on Mettany and Tamya who were focusing on their own.

"I hated the weak commoners. No... I hated the weak who doesn't fight back in general. So I became the strong who will fight back. I don't have talent in the first place but maybe, due to my immense training day and night, I unlocked potential as an Elementalist. At that point on, I climbed up until I reached a wall I cannot overcome. Thus, I can only stay low as I serve the princess. After all the effort and time I gave, in the end, I still didn't fight the king. He's too strong for me!"

Edora gritted her teeth, seemingly hating her life back then.

"I lived in an illusion where I think that I have reach my limit and that there is no need to fight any longer. I hated that! That was when... you showed up." Edora then looked at Avion.

"You shouted back at the king, made him restless, and in the end, tried to kill him. You also showed me a way to get stronger, not as an Elementalist, but as a martial artist. You showed me strength, dominated me, and placed me under your feet." she leaned towards Avion, "I thought I was at my peak. I thought that not even the king would step on my head. But you showed me that there's still oppression in this world, that I still need to fight...'

"I really, really love that."