Chapter 46 – {Everything Was Just Played} 3
{Everything was just play.}
“This…”
Lawton, who recalled and recalled the past he remembered, was astonished at the content of the video.
Arya Riverin, who had been freed from Terenity’s magic before she knew it, was also covering her mouth with her hand and her eyes in shock.
“Seo, Seo Moon-cheon. Is this video true?”
“Yes, it’s true.”
It contained a very terrible truth.
* * *
After Lawton disappeared, Aizina thought she would somehow find him and apologize and get paid.
She was willing to give her own life if he wanted to, and he was willing to hack and kill himself as well.
However, I couldn’t find his whereabouts, and I was worried that he might have committed suicide because he couldn’t bear the grief of losing all his family.
No matter how much she did it to save the lives of countless people, the fact that she unknowingly sacrificed her childhood friends and her family made her feel like she was alive but not alive.
Her daughter, Queen Laura, came to visit her and comforted her, but her heart could not be relieved.
Meanwhile, Lawton sent a call.
It was that there was something to talk about when we met separately.
‘Lawton!’
Aizen immediately went to Lawton, but there she was stabbed in the abdomen by Lawton with a dagger.
Entering Aethernum Somnium, he intended to destroy not only her but also the Duke of Restan to avenge her.
The Duke of Restan’s daughter, Queen Laura, was also staying for a few days to visit her parents’ house.
Perhaps they were aiming for this time.
“Lawton…”
She called out his name even as her mouth was bleeding, but he dragged her to the Duke of Reston, holding her by force, and showed her the tragedy of her present situation in front of her.
Screams were coming from all over the Duke of Lestan.
It was a massacre by members of the Aethernum Somnium.
“How are you? Aijina.”
Looking at the scene of this tragedy, Ai Jina was weeping while bleeding from her lips.
She cried out even as she felt a sense of shame and despair that all this tragedy had started because of herself.
“Why the hell? Why do they have to die? What did they do!”
Igina cried out at Lawton, but Lawton did not answer her words.
As if she hadn’t heard, the child Gina was shocked to see how he had fallen so far.
‘All… Because of me… ‘
Rather, he should have died.
If he had died, Lawton might not have mercilessly killed everyone in the Duke of Restan in front of him.
Aijina even heard this thought.
“Please…Lawton…They don’t have a relationship! Please…Just take your anger out on me…On me! Enough now! Please…”
The people of the Duke of Reston begged him to pour out his anger on himself, but Lawton didn’t answer as if he hadn’t heard.
“How are you? Aijina.”
Then he finally opened his mouth, but there was no answer to her words.
The answer was how it felt.
And before long, a terrible situation finally came to Aegina.
“Aaaaagh!”
Queen Laura, her daughter screaming and screaming.
I could see the villains riding on her body making foul breaths.
Ai Jina, who even saw her daughter being gang-raped by the villains, begged again.
“Lawton! Laura…Doesn’t matter? Why the hell! I did it wrong! It’s all my fault! But please…Save Laura!”
“I am no longer a knight of the Kingdom of Riverin. There is no reason to stop or save me.”
At those words, Aijina sobbed and screamed.
She felt like she was going crazy that everyone, including her own, was suffering because of a sin she had unknowingly committed.
No, she didn’t even know that she had already gone mad.
“Ahhhhh why! Why the hell? Why do you have to suffer from my fault? What kind of sin you have to suffer! To me … Torture me!
Lawton’s eyes turned to Aegina as she screamed.
However, Aijina felt goosebumps rising from the ominous magical energy emanating from Lawton’s body.
[Can this guy’s vengeance be satisfied with that?]
A strange voice came out of Lawton’s mouth.
And Eina, realizing he wasn’t Lawton, said with her hard face.
“You… Who are you?”
[Ijina. You drove the explosion into the center to save countless people from the explosion of the magic bomb. But at that time, is it a coincidence that there were people from the Bendicion family who did not evacuate?]
“What?”
[Whoops, I’ll die soon anyway, so I’ll tell you the truth. On that day, it was the explosion you gathered in the center that killed the people of the Bendision family, but I sent them there, who were originally sheltered in a safe place.]
“?!”
Ai Jina opened her eyes wide at the shocking truth she hadn’t expected.
Then… ?
[And Lawton, this guy has no idea of that. It was very easy to seduce this guy, stir up his vengeance, and make him run wild like this. Isn’t it a very interesting puppet?]
Despite the open mockery, Aijina quickly returned to her accident.
All of this was a conspiracy, a trap.
Lawton Bendision’s enemy was not himself.
He didn’t kill Ben Dishion people.
Her own childhood friend… It was being deceived and used by that unknown evil thing!
“Lawton! Can you hear me?”
Aegina hurriedly called Lawton Bendision.
If he came to his senses, the tragedy of this fooling around could be over.
Thinking so, she hurriedly shouted as Lawton Bendision’s gaze returned to normal.
“Lawton! Please talk to me for a moment…”
But Lawton Bendision’s grip caught her by the neck, preventing her from speaking.
Although suffering from the pain of her suffocation, somehow Aina wanted to tell him everything.
However, with his other hand, he killed Queen Laura by twisting her neck while she was being gang-raped.
‘Laura!’
Jina, a child with a distressed expression at the sight of her own daughter dying, cursed the whole situation.
More than Lawton Bendision’s poor choices, she cursed the unidentified evil entity that orchestrated all of this and made fun of them.
“You seem to finally understand how I feel.”
Having said that, Aizen slowly died as she felt Lawton Bendision’s knife thrust into her throat.
‘No… I have to tell the truth somehow… ‘
What Lawton Bendision had done she could not forgive.
But she had to at least tell him, his childhood friend, the truth, that he was being deceived.
He could no longer be fooled by the evil being.
‘At least then… If you kept talking… ‘
If I had been able to correct it in the beginning, would it have made a difference? I felt regret.
But it was all too late.
With that thought, Aijina’s consciousness disappeared.
* * *
“Terenity’s magic made it so that you wouldn’t feel out of place. And I guided you with sparse suggestions, and I made sure that Aijina’s story wasn’t heard at a critical moment.”
At my explanation, Lawton Bendision had an expression of shock as if he were bewildered.
Her own revenge was all fabricated, and she got her revenge in the wrong place.
As a result, his hands were full of innocent people’s blood.
“It can’t be…Then my revenge…”
Lawton Bendision came to realize that everything he had done was a massacre of innocent people.
Rather, he fell for the petty induction of his real enemy, killing Aegina, himself a childhood friend, and killing the innocents of Queen Laura and the Duchess of Restan.
He was the victim who became the perpetrator and the one who was used at the same time.
But that was no reason to defend him.
“They say that Terenity’s magical power covered some of the truth, but you chose to take revenge on your own will. You should take responsibility for it.”
Aria Riverin now has no reason to suffer from her guilt like the original.
Freed from her guilt that plagued her, she put herself in the position of the innocent victim.
And I find myself in the position of her savior for Arya Riverin.
Not only did she save her life, but she uncovered the truth and freed her from guilt and responsibility that would haunt her.
Everything was as planned.
“Aria, let it be handled by you. Kill or save is your decision. You are the victim who lost her mother, her maternal grandmother, and the rest of her maternal family to this person.”
Slightly forceful in her words that she was deliberately her victim, I handed her her sword out of her subspace.
Aria Riverin’s expression trembled slightly as she received the sword from me.
It would still be confusing.
Innocent people died because of her grandmother’s mistake, and her mother’s family, caught up in revenge, was destroyed.
Shortly after learning that, it was revealed that Aegina and the people of the Duke of Lestan who were actually murdered by Lawton Bendision were innocent.
However, the fact that Aijina was innocent was a story that even the Riverin royal family did not know.
“Is all this true?”
“Yes. This video stone belonged to the Aethernum Somnium organization. It was probably to mock you for knowing the whole truth at the end.”
Actually, I made it, but it was also true that the Aethernum Somnium Organization had it.
I caught one of the Aethernum Somnium members, Satan gave it to him, and then he took it and gave it back to me.
It wasn’t a lie.
Above all, the contents of this video are all true.
“I don’t want to believe it. But… The things that I lost my memory… I gradually remember them after watching the video…”
And Terenity temporarily obscured Lawton’s memories, not completely erased them.
It was a maneuver he made to realize and recall all the truth at the last moment.
However, the time has come for even a puppet to pay for the crimes committed by its own will.
“Lawton Bendicion.”
Arya Riverin stood up with her sword in a determined expression.
“As the princess of the Kingdom of Liberin, I will punish you for killing the queen, the Duchess of Lestan, the main culprit of the Lestan Street terror incident, and for raiding the National Hero Academy and endangering the students.”
Arya Riverin’s sword was aimed at Lawton Bendision’s neck.
“Do you have any last words?”
“…No, no.”
Arya Riverin’s sword decapitated Lawton Bendision.
* * *
Lawton Bendision remembered everything.
This burn of his own face was not inflicted on Aegina.
It was just an accident caused by the aftermath of the explosion that accidentally bounced while rushing to the scene of the explosion.
Everything was a fabrication.
‘If you go to the underworld… Everyone should apologize.’
He was a victim who lost his family, but the only ending suitable for him who became the perpetrator who killed innocent people was punishment.
He is punished as a villain.
Although it is said that there was encouragement, he, blinded by revenge, easily fell for the encouragement and committed all sorts of crimes of his own will.
This was also the case with the students’ attack.
The harm done to innocent people was paid for by not caring.
He had crossed the line and he didn’t deserve to be alive.
It was only now that I realized that.
‘Ijina.’
If I saw Aegina in her underworld, I thought she wouldn’t know how to apologize.
She probably won’t be able to forgive her for the rest of her life.
Even so, she would atone for life and accept any punishment in her underworld.
Thinking so, Lawton Bendision’s consciousness was cut off.
* * *
‘It’s over.’
The work of the first villain, Lawton Bendision, ended with this.
All that was left was to make Arya Riverin completely mine.
Fk I can’t handle feels