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nIn the first timeline,

nEven the villains cared about their partners~

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"Philip...it's been a year since then...huh?

" Marinette with her tongue cut off could only use blood writing it on the floor and murmured the words to him.

nTears dropped on blood on the prison floor, Prince Philip hugged Marinette making her warm from the crazy snowstorm outside.

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"I remember...we met at Christmas...

"

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"Stop it...stop saying...please don't leave me.

" he was hopeless, he blamed himself for his failure, if only he did this, he did that. Marinette would never end up in the same prison as him.

nBut it all turned to regret now.

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"Philip...remember that wish?

"

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"...just stop it.

" Prince Philip hugged her begging her desperately stopping her from talking because every time she did that, blood keep dripping out of her mouth.

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"I wished to come back in time...to meet you first...and you...you wish to save me sooner...

" she remembered every word he said to her. If her life was darkness then he must be the candle in her darkness.

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"Marinette, I love you...even it's short just please stay with me till the end.

" Prince Philip kissed Marinette's lip inserting the last remaining light magic inside his body ready to sacrifice all of his life force to keep her alive but it didn't happen as he wished, Marinette pushed him on the floor and her body was on top of his gripping both of his hand tightly.

nPrince Philip could only see Marinette's fainting smile and her beauty as her long hair blocked all of his other views, she was the only one in his eyes.

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"It wasn't...just...a wish...I did it.

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"What...what're you saying??

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"I will start over again, and that time you won't need to save me...and...don't come to me, don't look for me...just...stay away from each other.

" both of their hearts were breaking as she shouted at him with blood pouring down from her lip.

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"I can't do that!!!! I love you, without you...without you...I can't imagine a world without you in my life...

" the prince took her hand and kissed her hand.

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"I never love you, I hate you...I hate you for saving me...I should have died back then...I never and will never love you, your highness.

"

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"Don't push me away!!!! Anything...but that...

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"It's the truth...when I meet you again in my next life, I won't look at you...talk to you...or fall for you like this life again.

" without knowing, she could say every word clearly with her new tongue, and the body she was on top of couldn't listen to her words any longer...he died.

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"Philip!!!! Philip!!!!! What did you do??? What--

" Marinette touched her new tongue, it was really grown back.

nShe cried on Philip's dead body desperately calling him to wake up, she hasn't finished saying what she wanted yet.

nShe noticed the letter near the prince's hand, it was written with her blood.

n'I love you.'

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"...haaa...Philip...I never knew such pain until meeting you...it's painful...wake up...wake...

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nMarinette's POV

nBack to the present, in the cavern,

nCough cough

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"Brat!!! Just endure a little more!!!

" Herod shouted at me, my eyes started to see things clearly but the pain wasn't getting any less painful. Instead, I felt like I remembered something I shouldn't remember. It was blurry, was that my locked memories?? I couldn't see the face of that man who stayed with me in the prison.

nAt this rate I'll die of blood loss, even the light magic of the goddess won't keep up with this.

nI needed to do something, I looked at everything around the room.

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"I just need to balance the four magic, right??

" the goddess nodded answering my question.

nThe light magic energy inside my body was more than the rest of my magic, the goddess already said I couldn't get it out yet, and the solution to get it out wasn't an easy task.

nThe dark magic might be the result of my mother's curse when she had me in her womb.

nIt was even stronger than my death roses magic.

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"Herod, lend me your magic.

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"If I lend you your magic, your memory magic won't be balanced.

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"I have an idea...so do it.

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"Alright, it's gonna be painful.

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nCompared to getting my tongue cut, the pain wasn't anything to me. But it still hurt to the point my knees dropped to the ground as he had to wrap my body with rose's thorn to put some of his magic inside my body.

nOne last thing was the memory magic, using it...it will be risky, I might never come back to this world ever again and my body will be Sun-hee's forever.

nBut compare to dying, I won't afraid of that.

nMemory Magic: Memory Delete

nThe only step left was to select what memory I wanted to delete, and the deleted memory will turn to the memory magic and the four powerful magic inside my body will be balanced.

nI wished I could delete my trauma but it seemed like I couldn't delete it.

nThen...

nBasement's memory will be deleted!

nThe basement wasn't part of my trauma in this life since I had already experienced it already in my past life.

nSun-hee will return soon, she could help me for a while.

nDeath Roses Magic

/ Dark Magic

/ Light Magic

/ Memory Magic ***Balance!!

nHuff huff

nMy consciousness was drifting away from me as I was getting sleepy.

n'I'll leave the rest to you...Sun-hee---'

nHuh?

nWhy couldn't I summon her??

nCough cough

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nMeanwhile on earth,

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"Miss, it's time. Let's go.

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"Ah...I was a little sleepy...sorry.

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nI felt like I was going to collapse out of a sudden.

nEverything in the novel was really accurate, every action of mine was also written in the novel. The author must also come from that world.

nI had no time for finding out who the author was, the priority was to get my hands on the second volume.

nThe second volume of the story will be most likely about Tristan's death. Will Tristan escape death or he will die again?

nAnd what will happen to Marinette when I left her body? I was poisoned, I could already guess who would poison me.

nI really want to run...I want to run...run there to that place to read the second volume but my legs were on a wheelchair, it felt really uncomfortable, I missed running. I really appreciated being able to walk and jump.

nEven getting my body in the taxi was a difficult task, I could see the nurse's expression with me as her burden.

nWe had to tie the wheelchair on top of the taxi's roof too.

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"Sun-hee!!!

" when the driver started the taxi, a loud voice calling my name from outside, I saw that guy on the other side of the road.

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"Ji-hoon!!!

" I looked out of the window shouting back that guy's name.

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"It's that young man who always visited you.

" I was just guessing that it might be him but knowing him visiting me making me all teary, I opened the taxi's door intending to run to Ji-hoon.

nI fell from the taxi hitting the ground with my elbow, I saw Ji-hoon's surprised face and his face somehow looked like it was on the verge of tears seeing me falling.

nIt didn't hurt, it wasn't hurt at all. I wanted to go hug him, I missed him...I wanted to tell him, I got into that novel we used to talk about.

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"Ji-hoon!!! I'll walk to you.

" I grabbed on the taxi's door getting up from the ground, grabbed the light pole walking to him step by step.

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"Sun-hee...

" we were almost...just a little more, I wanted to stand in front of him telling him it wasn't his fault. He didn't have to feel burdened.

nJust crossing the road, he will be by my side.

nHe ran hurriedly to me, and the light wasn't green--

nThat time...the scream was heard everywhere, but my ears felt numb...blood was all over the crossroad, and the car who hit the man escaped from the place.

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"Ji-hoon...

" I murmured his name looking at him with my shaking eyeball, his face was covered in blood, his black hair was also stained with red blood.

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"Sun-hee...

" there were two men lying on the crossroad, from the distance, I wasn't sure which one was the one getting hit by the car...but everything around me started to turn black.

nMy leg and my hand couldn't endure any longer, I fell on the road which my face looking at Ji-hoon and that blonde-haired man...his face was similar...

nYe-Joon??

nMemory Magic: Ultimate Art Of Memory

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nA miracle happened!!!!!!!!

nEven the nurse who was started getting out of the car to help Sun-hee get up was also shocked because of the miracle in front of her eyes.

nThere weren't many people or cars in front of the hospital at that moment, even the driver's jaw dropped seeing the girl who sat on a wheelchair a moment ago standing like her legs were okay.

nLight Magic: Blessing of Goddess

nWhite magic energy surrounded black-haired Sun-hee, the scar on her face was glowing the name Marinette.

nHer leg was healed immediately, she looked at her surrounding like it was the first time seeing such tall buildings, strange clothes of people, and the plane over her head, it was really new for her.

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"Miss...your legs...

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"Ah...so I could use my magic in this world??

" Sun-hee murmured to herself, she had some knowledge about this world, she immediately destroyed all of the cameras on the street with her death roses magic and then wiped the memory of those two.

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"Sun-hee...

" the guy on the street got up and walked to Sun-hee with one of his supported this other hand as that one hand was injured by the impact of the accident a moment ago.

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"You must be Ji-hoon...

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nLight Magic: Blessing of Goddess

nSun-hee healed the man with a face full of surprises seeing her using magic.

nAfter healing him, she put him to sleep and wiped some of his memories.

nShe tossed him elsewhere without a care and then walked slowly, she felt like her eyes were deceiving her when she saw the blonde-haired man who lay on the street with his head bleeding.

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"Flynn??? Why is his soul the same as Flynn's??

" she put his head gently on her lap seeing his soul in that world she was in.

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"I'm...Ye-Joon, not Flynn...

" Ye-Joon murmured to her in agony as he was seriously injured when he jumped in to push Ji-hoon away from the car.

nLight Magic: Blessing of Goddess

nShe healed him immediately, after using many magic spells in a row, even she was exhausted, she lost consciousness and fell on Ye-Joon's shoulder as he rushed to catch her.

nThere was only Ye-Joon who didn't get his memories erased.

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"How did she--

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nOn Anastasia,

nOn the contrary to that, Marinette opened her eyes slowly looking at two strange faces staring at her, one had long blonde hair and the other one had white hair.

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"Where am I...?

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"We're in the cavern!!

" Herod replied to Marinette's question, she stood up, she suddenly got some idea of which world she was in when she was able to walk again.

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"No...no...I shouldn't be here...I need to save those two.

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"What're you talking about?? You're lucky you're alive right now.

" the goddess said to her with her voice was getting lower and lower as she finished speaking.

nA moment later, the demon king came back into the cavern through the hole he destroyed with the sleeping Philip on his shoulder.

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"You bastard, how dare you to use your magic on Marinette??!!

" Herod yelled at the demon king, but he didn't pay any attention to Herod's words. In his mind, he needed to be by the goddess's side no matter what.

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"You shouldn't come so quickly...

" the goddess was out of her magic after using it to heal Marinette, she laid her back to the statue of the knight as she looked at the demon king.

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"Anastasia...

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nWhile they were talking with each other, the demon king was holding the goddess's hand as her heart started beating slower and slower, Herod grabbed Marinette's hands and grabbed the prince's collar the casting the big petal below them.

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"What are you--

" Marinette was startled by the new magic she hasn't seen before, and she felt guilty leaving that woman dying over there.

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"Brat, listen to me. We have to get out of here before the goddess dies, the goddess is holding him there to let us escape.

" Herod whispered to Marinette's ears, she didn't know anything about the situation as she was only waking up a moment ago, but when she saw the smile of the goddess looking at her way, it felt like she told her to go.

nMarinette nodded to Herod's suggestion and grabbed the prince's body tightly afraid he will fall down from the petal.

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"About that red-haired guy, he woke up and told me he will return back himself.

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"You mean Flynn???

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"Yes, so you don't have to worry.

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"Okay...but can I ask you something??

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"What now??

" Herod frowned.

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"Who are you??

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"Eh?? What're you saying??

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"I didn't remember knowing someone like you...

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n'Is this the other method Marinette told me??'

nHerod smirked and replied,

"I'm your protector from now on, you can call me Herod.

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nMarinette had a strange feeling in her heart as each of Herod's words she listened was worth her trust. What she didn't know was that Herod was part of the soul of Sun-hee's father on earth.

nThe one she was speaking to was the lingering soul of Herod in Anastasia.

nAnd the fate of the lingering soul...was turning to ashes.

nTo be continued....!

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