Chapter 937: Chapter 143 - Perfecting The Plan (3)
"You should have kept your mouth shut when you don’t even know what you’re talking about," she said, her tone sharp and almost cutting. There was a flicker in her eyes that it was something that told me she wasn’t just throwing words around. It looked like she meant it.
"So... am I right then?" I asked her, my voice calm but carrying a little bit of pressure behind it. I wanted to see her reaction and to push her into revealing more.
She tilted her head slightly, her lips curling into a faint smirk. "What do you think?" she replied, her tone playful but with an edge, like she already knew I was walking into something deeper.
"Well, for one thing..." I paused, looking straight at her. "I don’t think it’s possible for two souls to coexist inside a single body at the same time. That just doesn’t make sense. So the only thing I can think of is that some kind of special circumstance must’ve happened, and because of that, you ended up inside Su’s body."
Her eyes narrowed slightly, but not out of anger—it was more like she was studying me and measuring my words carefully.
"Oh? So what you’re saying is... you’re comparing your situation with mine?" she asked, her tone slow and deliberate, like she wanted me to know she already had me figured out.
So, she already knew. She knew I was a vessel for Lilith. I didn’t have a damn clue how she found out, but judging from where this whole conversation was heading, it wasn’t really surprising. Maybe it was only natural for her to assume it. Either way, I couldn’t shake the feeling that this talk between us was about to turn into something far more interesting.
"Unfortunately, Leon..." her voice softened, almost carrying a trace of pity. "I don’t think our circumstances are that similar at all. For one, Su’s body isn’t carrying a great one who lived since the very beginning of this world—someone who survived countless years and only fell in the end to the Seven Deadly Sins." She leaned forward slightly, her eyes gleaming. "Me? I’m nothing but a lowly demon who just happened to find this vessel waiting for me. That’s it. Nothing more, nothing less. That’s why things turned out this way. I couldn’t kick Su out of her body, because this is her original body. I was just a soul that had been sleeping inside her. Unlike you, who’s carrying a great one. In your case, Lilith can just take control of your body whenever she wants, switching with you as easily as breathing. And honestly... I don’t think that makes your situation much different from mine at all."
Her words rang in my ears. And well... I had to admit... what she was saying actually made sense. Or well, not really. But it lined up in a way I couldn’t ignore. But still, even with that, I had no idea what would happen to me once Lilith resurrected. That thought alone dug deep into the back of my mind, gnawing away.
Even though I had no intention of ever bringing her back, it didn’t feel like something I could avoid forever. Like no matter what I did, fate itself would drag me right into it.
It wasn’t just some random feeling either. Every time, without fail, I ended up face to face with one of the fragments. It was almost as if fate itself was shoving me into these meetings, forcing me into them. And the only conclusion I could reach was that all of this was pointing toward Lilith’s resurrection being inevitable—like it had already been carved into stone long before I even had a say in it.
Which meant... no matter how much I tried to bury it, no matter how hard I tried to turn away, it would still happen. One way or another, I would resurrect her. Even if I didn’t want to.
"I hope you don’t go telling Su about this," she said suddenly, her voice steady but holding an undertone of warning. "Even though I’ve been inside her since the day she was born, she has no idea that I exist. To her, it only ever feels like she randomly falls asleep. Then, when she wakes up, she has no idea where she was or what she’d been doing. That’s because I was in control of her body during that time. And she doesn’t need to know the truth."
"You don’t want her to hate you, huh?" I asked, my tone carrying a hint of curiosity.
"Nope," she answered quickly, a small smile tugging at her lips. "Because if she ever found out the truth—that I’ve been inside her this whole time—then I’d completely take over. And if that happened, she’d never get her body back. Not ever again."
That... was honestly kind of terrifying. I couldn’t lie about that. But at the same time, I had no idea what to fully make of it. I couldn’t shake this feeling that there was something way more complicated going on between Su and Han than what I was being told.
For now though, I shoved all of that to the side. What mattered most was the plan.
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We carried on with planning the invasion with us carefully laying out every detail. The main focus was on striking the establishments that were keeping elven slaves.
One of the prostitution brothels in the area had been confirmed to have two elves. The auction house was even worse as they were holding anywhere between five to ten. And then there were the noble houses... the so-called high and mighty families who were keeping elves as their personal sex slaves.
We mapped everything out piece by piece, weighing every possible risk as well as every possible angle. And after all of that, we finally settled on the day we’d strike.
"I think that day would be the best option," I said firmly, my voice carrying the weight of finality.
"I think so too," Artemis agreed without hesitation.