*Swoosh*

Asterion arrived at his room of the magic tower and he laid Eurielle on the bed.

He checked her pulse once again and there was no heartbeat.

"F'ck."

He was all icky from the blood but he could care less about it at the moment.

He pressed his hand on Eurielle's left chest and tried to feel her spiritual mana if there's still left because it's his last hope right now.

"!!!!"

Eurielle's spiritual mana... Was blocked.

He might have found the answer to his questions after all.

About what happened to Eurielle and why she was acting strangely one day... It was all because of this.

Blockage of spiritual mana can only happen once dark magic is involved.

For now, he needs to unseal that blocked mana of hers so that her heartbeat comes back.

And once her heartbeat is back, he can begin the healing from then.

Asterion placed his lips on hers and connected his mana to hers in order to start unsealing the blockage.

....

Eurielle's tightly closed eyes twitched a bit when she heard the sound.

She opened her eyes and looked around her.

'What happened?'

She remembered that she fell. That knight pushed her and she fell on the ground.

Eurielle touched the back of her head and there was no injury or whatsoever.

*Ding*

She turned to see where the sound came from and saw a machine. Inside that machine was a served meal.

She strode towards the machine and saw the same dish that was served to her everyday there..

Her eyes widened as she discovered she was back inside that suffocating room again.

She was back.

"Was it all a dream?"

She mumbled as she recalled the memories she had as Eurielle.

Maybe she's back to being Elle now...

She sat on the small bed that she always slept at since the beginning.

"It's small... And suffocating." Eurielle closed her eyes, waiting for sleep to overcome her.

But as she closed her eyes, fragments of memories suddenly entered her mind as if playing a movie.

*Gasp*

"Haah, hah."

She couldn't believe it.

Eurielle and Elle....

They were the same person.

The Elle who was trapped in this small room was the same Eurielle who was branded as a villainess of a certain novel.

They were one in the first place.

It's just that, the soul was divided into two because of black magic.

Suddenly, Eurielle felt a gush of wind.

It was a familiar occurrence that Rion did when he appeared before her in those memories of her.

"Eurielle." A voice called out to her.

"Rion?"

Asterion appeared out of nowhere.

But how?

"Why are you here?" She asked as she sat up.

"?!"

Eurielle was surprised when he abruptly hugged her.

"You're still alive." He mumbled.

"Of course I am."

Asterion looked around the small space she was in.

"So this is where you were trapped?"

"Ah, yes. It's a small area."

"Who the hell would-"

"It's Abigail." Eurielle answered as if she already knew a long time ago.

"It was always her from the beginning." She sighed.

Asterion tucked a piece of her hair from behind.

"I'll listen."

"Thank you." Eurielle smiled.

Asterion was a bit taken back by that smile of hers.

It was like she gained emotions all of a sudden. It was like she was no longer the same emotionless doll that he knew from a few days ago.

"I don't know when but all I knew was that, I was here from the very beginning. I only knew that I was trapped here forever when notes from those served plates were given to me.

It was like they were bound to control my life. So I just went on with it since I had no problems about it.

But one day, I suddenly became sick of everything. I was tired of the food, this small room, and everything about here."

Eurielle looked at Asterion and grinned. "So I killed myself using a knife."

"!!!"

"I was curious. That sharp thing was beautiful. It stabbed my neck neatly and it hurt when I did-"

"Stop. That's enough." Asterion didn't want to hear about Eurielle's suicidal actions. He only wants her alive.

"After that, I woke up as Eurielle Deidamus. The Eurielle who saved you when you almost died back then." She added.

"..!!.. You remembered." He mumbled.

"Of course I do. Eurielle and I are the same person. And it was Abigail who ruined my life."

"That b'tch."

"Pfft- that's bad, Rion." Eurielle chuckled.

"Every time Abigail and I were having tea in the past, she had a bag of sachet filled with dark magic in order to divide my soul into this mess.

Ahh, somehow, my hands are itching to kill her." Eurielle chuckled.

She really became different. Eurielle became human. She had emotions and she knew what to feel.

"Hey, Rion. Why are you here?"

"I'm here to save you. It was Abigail who casted black magic to you and I'm here to unseal the blockage of your mana. So that you can finally wake up."

"But how do you unseal the blockage?"

"I just need to connect my mana with you. Just like how I ended up here in the first place."

"How?"

"...I kissed you."

"Oh."

Eurielle thought of something.

She strode towards him and cupoed his cheeks. Eurielle smiled softly at him.

"I have a favor."

"What is it? Tell me anything."

"Right now, I'm only like this because I regained memories of both souls that was divided. So when I wake up later...

Please teach me emotions."

"What-"

"Thank you."

Eurielle reached for his face and kissed him.

....

*Snap*

"!!!"

Asterion woke up.

Eurielle was still lying on the bed, unconscious.

He checked her heartbeat and there was a faint beating inside her.

'Now I just need to heal her.'

Asterion started healing the injury in the back of her head as well as her body.

Her body was like a broken glass inside, all torn and shredded. But using high level magic like his would do the job.

...

It took him almost an hour to perform the healing.

*Sigh*

He heard Eurielle exhaling. And no sooner than that, she started breathing regularly.

'Finally.'

Her body was back to normal.

"Eurielle.. what did you mean by the thing you said?"

'Teaching emotions huh...'

As he thought about the Eurielle he saw earlier, he also wanted to have that kind of Eurielle.

The one that had emotions and feelings.

"Mhm.."

"Eurielle?"

Eurielle opened her eyes and sat up from the bed.

She clenched her head as she felt pain deep inside. A frown was visible in her face.

She looked at her hand and her clothes.. it had blood on it.

"What happened?" She asked, her head tilted.

'Ah, so this is what she meant.'

The Eurielle that was in front of him was naive and dense. Sometimes oblivious and emotionless but she was cute. And he also loved that side of her.

"Rion?"

Asterion held her hand and kissed each of her fingers.

"That tickles." Eurielle mumbled.

Teaching her emotions... He's sure that she'll develop it one day.

But for now...

This is the Eurielle that he wants.