I Became a Genius Mechanic at the Academy

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Isabella was in agony.

Seeing her parallel self and parallel Edgar was almost torturous.

It was no wonder; she had constantly pushed Edgar away.

Ever since accepting her family’s fate, she focused solely on storing negativity and severed her connection with Edgar.

She harshly spoke and acted against the parallel Edgar, using him as ‘material for negativity.’

[It’s okay. I can understand you.]

Yet, Edgar still did not leave her side.

Instead, he just stayed around like a fool, as if he was waiting to be used.

[…Are you brainless? Or just a born fool? Stop clinging and get lost. Our relationship is over.]

[……..]

However, she remained cruel to him until the end.

The more he tried to stay by her side, the harsher her words and humiliating actions became, to the point of inflicting physical harm.

She struck a balance between the pain of having to push away the person she loved and the guilt of hurting him.

She thought that maybe this would make Edgar leave.

[…You’re in pain too.]

But the parallel Edgar had already seen through her.

He understood that her rejection wasn’t because she truly hated him, but rather because she had no choice but to push him away to comply with her family’s fate.

He smiled sadly and said,

[Someday… when your destiny is fulfilled, I’ll come back to you. Of course, if your feelings change, feel free to lean on me.]

With those words, the parallel Edgar left her.

Yet, he only watched her from a distance.

He didn’t show up in front of her but constantly checked in on her with worry.

“Why…?”

Isabella couldn’t understand.

Why did the parallel Edgar want to stay by her side so much?

The only thing she had given him was a tiny bit of love and a much greater wound.

“…Ah.”

Yet the next moment, Isabella was able to understand Edgar’s heart.

Currently, she was peering into Edgar’s memories and felt the emotions connected to those memories.

It was a phenomenon that often occurred when someone became overly immersed in another’s memories.

[You…]

Edgar’s love for her.

It was, in fact, pity.

For some reason, he knew her fate and endlessly pitied her, reaching out to help.

However, his pity eventually blossomed into love.

When the unfortunate Isabella smiled or felt happiness from his small actions, that alone filled his heart, turning into true love.

Isabella could intensely feel Edgar’s heart.

[Get lost. I’m sick of even seeing your face.]

But she only gave him wounds.

In the end, she rushed to fill her negativity by using the one who loved her.

She inflicted great wounds on the only person she ever loved, filling her negativity.

“Ah… ahh…”

Yet, despite everything, Edgar’s heart remained unchanged.

He was hurt by her malicious attitude, but his love for her showed no signs of wavering.

Instead, he could only look at her with pity as she walked down the path of unhappiness.

“…”

A year passed like that.

Finally, she could qualify as the head of the family.

Having pushed Edgar away, she was now able to confront Adrian Graham, having filled herself with negativity.

“…I’m becoming like that.”

However, at that point, she had already lost her humanity.

Filling herself only with negativity had become her life’s sole purpose, leaving her incapable of feeling any joy in life outside of filling negativity.

The emotions of joy and happiness that one should inherently possess as a human were missing from her.

It was no wonder; the person she hated most was herself.

[…I can see the end now.]

But as a price for discarding her emotions, she finally gained the right to escape her cursed fate.

Having completed herself through negativity, she immediately returned to the northern territory and stood before Adrian Graham.

He was sitting on his throne, smirking as he rose from his seat.

[You’ve finally become somewhat presentable. But remember, if you lose to me here, your sister won’t escape death.]

A challenge for the position of head of the family.

Their father threatened that if she missed this opportunity, he would kill her sister.

[Well, I don’t care. If you want to kill her, kill her.]

But she no longer cared about her sister’s life.

By this point, she had lost her humanity, and her hatred overwhelmed any affection she had for her sister.

Because the very affection she held for her sister was the starting point that plunged her life into misery.

From the moment her father took her sister hostage, she had lived this life to save her.

In other words, she had taken on the family’s fate in place of her sister, who had gone mad from accumulating negativity.

[…Well done. Now you’re truly a Graham.]

Yet, her mad father smiled at her words that he wouldn’t care about killing her sister.

He then extended his hand toward her and said:

[Then show me your hatred.]

Puhwaaaaah!

A torrent of negativity poured forth from Adrian’s hand.

With dead black eyes glaring at Adrian, she twisted her lips into a smirk.

Then, with just that, a flood of negativity began to spill out, starting to confront her father’s negativity.

“…”

A battle of power, both sides colliding with their negativity.

However, it wasn’t long before one side began to tilt in favor.

Slowly, her negativity began to overwhelm Adrian, starting to consume his negativity.

[…Kuhk!]

In the end, Adrian, who was losing the battle, knelt before her.

The once impenetrable father who she had cursed her whole life finally knelt before her.

[…I admit my defeat. I will hand over the position of head of the family, so withdraw your negativity.]

Ultimately, Adrian, unable to withstand her negativity, acknowledged his loss.

As she withdrew her negativity, he staggered to his feet.

With a twisted expression, he spoke to her.

[I’ve raised a monster. To accumulate that much negativity at such a young age…]

[……..]

Adrian Graham, who didn’t rise to the position of head of the Graham family until he was 31.

But she had gained the right to become the head of the family at the much earlier age of 21.

Soon, Adrian called his butler Billson to handle all the procedures related to the title transfer.

[Now you’re free. Go lead Graham your way.]

Having handed over the position to Isabella, Adrian left abruptly.

He followed the ancient Graham tradition and departed to the ‘Northern Ruins.’

For there was a legend that the true completion of Graham would occur at the Northern Ruins.

Yet, no one knew what the content of that legend was.

Some said that one would drink the divine liquid hidden deep within the ruins and ascend as a great dragon, while others claimed that the Graham’s, addicted to negativity, would wander there like zombies only to be eaten by monsters, meeting a miserable end.

In the end, only the former head of the Graham family who departed for the Northern Ruins would know the truth.

[……..]

But for her parallel self, such matters held no significance.

She had no interest in the final fate of a defeated loser expelled to the ruins and didn’t want to know either.

What mattered to her was that she had finally found freedom.

There was no longer any reason for her to live accumulating negativity.

[Kuhuhuhuh…]

But not long after, she realized.

Now, she could no longer feel ’emotion’ in any act except for accumulating negativity.

She had come to the terrible realization that she had become addicted to the very act of accumulating negativity, just like her father.

-You are my greatest gift.

At that moment, the words her father once said echoed in her mind.

Words that carried deep meaning when he said them to her as a child.

You are my greatest gift.

[…..Ah.]

And now she had come to understand the true meaning behind those words.

The reason Adrian Graham tormented her and her sister was that he felt pleasure from accumulating negativity by inflicting pain on his own children.

[Yeah… Now I understand you…]

Everything began when she was 11.

It all started when she killed a puppy she had cherished alongside Enya.

In order to save her sister, she had pushed the puppy off a cliff, and it was the first time she had begun to accumulate ‘negativity.’

-Good job. You did well!

But her father smiled at her, watching her.

He had been pretending to be tender until she was 11, but now he had finally revealed his true nature.

[Then I…]

Not long after, she would become similar to her father.

She would create a family solely for the purpose of accumulating negativity and repeat the same actions with her own child.

And the partner she would choose for such a life would be…

“Ed.”

Parallel Edgar Fix.

The one who loved her unconditionally would be chosen as a partner, only to be drained for negativity.

And the child born from them would live a life resenting their mother, just like she did.

[…Puh. Damn family.]

The parallel self realized this fact and fell into despair.

She thought that simply becoming the head of the family would bring her back to normal, but instead, she only realized she would have to live with this cursed fate for the rest of her life.

From that moment, she began to distance herself from parallel Edgar even more.

Knowing full well that the moment they got together, his life would plunge into despair, she pushed him away with even harsher words and actions.

That was all she could give him.

[…Kuh!]

Then one day.

Suddenly, an unbearable headache began to erupt.

And the cause of that headache was a forced influx of some memory.

However, the content of that memory was surprisingly about ‘the origin of Graham.’

[…King Graham?]

King Graham.

He was the legendary figure who first established a kingdom in the North.

And he was also one of the ‘Celestials’ who descended from the heavens.

Memories of this mythical being who spread civilization and magic to the world flowed into her mind.

“…”

Isabella quietly gazed into the memories of this mythical character.

He and his companions divided themselves in the four cardinal directions to establish kingdoms to stop the invasion of demons, building civilization in the process.

The sheer power they wielded was so immense that humanity, which had only existed in its primitive form, swiftly entered a civilized society.

-How is the progress?

But there was a leader who governed such amazing beings.

A man called by the strange name of ‘Cha Do-yoon.’

He possessed the most powerful authority among the Celestials.

And Isabella felt a strange sense of déjà vu from his appearance.

“…?”

However, she had no time to think about Cha Do-yoon.

The scene changed rapidly, shifting to the northern territory.

There, her ancestor was sharing love with a woman.

She was a beauty with an enchanting charm that could mesmerize anyone just by looking at her.

“…What is this, why…?”

Yet strangely, seeing the woman made her heart feel heavy.

Anger surged within her for no reason, and she couldn’t control her emotions.

She thought she had lost her feelings over time while accumulating negativity, yet she couldn’t understand why she felt so angry.

-I love you.

-So do I. Truly, I love you.

Yet the ancestors within the memory genuinely loved each other.

Though not long after meeting, they swore to be together forever, got engaged, and even had a child.

Their love seemed to flourish smoothly.

-[…You.]

But four years later, the war with the demons began.

And the couple’s love ultimately met a tragic end.

The woman’s true identity was that of ‘Lilith,’ one of the Lords of Hell.