Chapter 53: I'm His Son
"Arghhh."
Eugene throws away the things on his table while crying.
Why is this world so cruel for letting him who knows nothing suffer like this? Why is it that he didn't even choose to be born but he was the one who is being punished? Can he just...can he just take a rest from all of this and be at peace?
He has been living in lies for thousands of years.
He has been fucking living in lies for thousands of years!
No wonder his mother can't love him, no wonder he is different from his siblings. Because he is a monster made against the order of heaven. He is a child born from a man, not even a child born with love because his father refuses to accept that fact and so he is too. This should have been a dream, what he heard must be a lie. That's right, everything, everything is just his hallucination.
He's not Duke Viltaria's child.
He did not come out of his father's womb.
He is not---
Eugene burst out..."I'm not a monster."
Eugene collapse on the floor and cried his heart out. He's out of breath and his heart hurt. It's over, not only that, but even his siblings wouldn't accept such a thing. He would have accepted if he is a child of Duke Viltaria with the Duchess, in that way he can understand his mother's hatred, but no...He is a child born in an affair.
His mother, hating him is reasonable.
So he had no right, he had no right to blame his mother when he wasn't even her child.
"Why is it so messed up?"
Closing his eyes, Eugene expresses his grief.
Your sin is your very own existence.
"Eugene Aimer Shradinza, you have no record at all, you shouldn't have been born. It should only be the heaven's child. You..."
"The goddess of fate reviews the record of life. Eugene Aimer Shradinza, you are punished for committing a crime against the heaven's child. I announce..."
"You who have been sinned..."
Eugene covers his ear and curls his body.
"I didn't commit any crime! It's you the heavens who deprived me of life!"
"I don't accept! I won't die! You won't be able to kill me!"
"I will be back! When the time comes, I'll prove to all of you, that I'm not existing for nothing! I will..."
Eugene slowly loses consciousness.
When his eyes opened again, Eugene is already in the heavenly realm and Kiara who would always come to him is only standing in the corner while trembling. But Eugene just walk towards the bed and sat down in a dazed. Though not fully conscious, he had a connection to his half-self. It also surprise him, when he learned the origin of his birth.
"Numen..."
Eugene didn't look at Kiara but still asked: "You know it right?"
Kiara purses her lips.
"Back then you said to the gods that you have not found any record of my birth, yet I exist."
"Numen--"
"TELL ME THE TRUTH KIARA! IS DUKE DEL VILTARIA REALLY MY FATHER?!"
Kiara collapse on the floor and cried.
"Yes. You are a child born through magic. You have the blood of your father the Marquis and the Duke. Because your birth almost breaks the balance of the world, the heavens have no choice but to destroy you so the heaven's favor child won't suffer."
"Hahaha." Eugene cover his face and laughed, but tears started to flow from his eyes.
"Numen, even if--"
"My sibling, is that person my real twin brother?"
Kiara paused and slowly nodded her head, "When you leave the judgment hall, your life record suddenly appears which surprises us so instead of vanishing your soul, the heavens replace your punishment and make you travel to a different dimension. That is to weaken your soul because your existence means the destruction of the world. At least in that way, the heaven won't have to kill you and sin themselves."
Eugene's lip twitched.
"You and Casimin Del Viltaria are twin brothers. Britanny Del Viltaria and Zevi Shilomst Del Viltaria are your step sibling from your Duke father's side while Euric Aizen Shradinza, Eunice Amellia Shradinza, and Eullian Aison Shradinza are your step siblings in your Marquis father side. Also, Cadmus Ivollette is not a Del Viltaria but a Shradinza."
"Zevi Shilomst Del viltaria?"
"He is your step-sibling who was taken as a child bride by the Catharis family."
Eugene purses his lips, his face is wetted by tears that couldn't be stooped no matter what.
"Another question...who is this heaven's favorite child?"
Kiara clenches her fist.
"Kaizer Restall De la Vallier Karsten and Chantall Ellena Sloane."
Upon hearing the name, Eugene completely collapses. No wonder, no wonder he couldn't defeat Kaizer. No wonder the woman he loved couldn't be his other half. Because everything is already planned and his role is really only to be a villain. So he's right, his existence as the antagonist is given from the start, because, unlike others. He wasn't in the plan, no...he had never been part of the plan, to begin with.
Because his existence is what almost destroys the balance of the world.
Laughing, he stood up from his seat and approached Kiara.
"N-Numen I---"
Eugene grab Kiara's neck and said: "You gods are really, really..."
Kiara scream when the divine particle suddenly formed and immediately knew that Eugene is sucking all her divine power, which will make her disappear and not exist even as a soul.
Golden mist flow around and Euegne's dark gloomy misty eyes bored onto the goddess who was kneeling before him, saying: "Kiara, you've been good until now, but really, I hate your kind the most. But what to do? I'm also becoming you but the only difference is that I have no intention to control others' life nor favor a person that will make others suffer through their whole life."
"Kiara, what do you think of me, being a god?"
Kiara turn pale, "N-No! Numen! Y-You can't, if my presence disappears in this realm the heaven will detect you and erase you in this world! You will never be able to reincarnate again!"
"Threatening me?"
"No, I---"
"But Kiara, I'm not just a god. Because I kill a god."
Kiara shook his head: "N-Numen you can't do that---"
"But I can." Eugene laughs, "Even if you disappear with my ability the heaven won't detect anomalies in this realm. You shouldn't have forgotten, you are killed by me, I am now the god of this realm. As long as I'm existing the heaven who still believe that I'm a human won't be able to identify me."
Kiara closes her eyes.
Eugene's evil laugh resounds in the realm: "I will be a god among the gods!"
"I will take my revenge to the heaven who destroy me!"
Kiara's soul started to become transparent and a book flew out from the shelves. From bronze color to silver, until it becomes gold. That's it, the birth of new gods finally appears.
The god amongst the gods.
The destruction of the world.
Fatum realm vibrates and Eugene raises his hand to receive the golden book which is his life record. From being a human to finally being a god. Eugene who defies the heavens finally got what he wants and the next is to go back to Artha and ascend the second time.
Kiara's soul already disappears.
The Fatum realm also undergoes changes.
Eugene's eyes turn gold and his hair silver, that's is...the true feature of a Del Viltaria because when the restrictions within him disappear, everything of him also goes back to what it is from the beginning. The divine energy in his magic is stronger than he expects so he can finally go in and out of the realm as he wanted.
Even the red string floating around are finally controlled by him.
Finally, he can finally be free from the shackles.
Walking away, he finds the life record of his father and the duke, including the life record of his mother and the duchess. In the end, because of curiosity he also grabs the life record of his step-siblings and read it from the very start.
He spends the rest of his time reading and finally summarizes everything.
Eugene's tears fell on the pages as he read.
Aison and Arkiton are true love, they have loved each other since childhood but then something happens. The Duke's father who find out that he is liking a man couldn't accept it and force him into marriage. Of course, Arkiton refuse so he was locked up by his father to reflect. What Arkiton didn't know is that his father announces his engagement without permission on those days he is being grounded.
Aison who heard about it become heartbroken and thought that Arkiton betrayed him.
Aison sends a bunch of letters wanting to meet Arkiton to make him explain but no matter what, he never gets a single reply. In those days, his father also knocks on his door and forces him to meet someone which Aison agreed with heavy feeling.
Celisha Estisa Bliastiva who was Aison's blind date fell in love at first sight.
But Aison refuses because he still loves Arkiton and he is still hoping that Arkiton will come to him. Celisha who was ejected and left alone got angry and told her father that she wanted to marry Aison no matter what. So the Marquess, who receive a letter from Viscount Bliastiva happily agreed to engage the two so that he won't no longer offend the Duke who threaten him to send away his son out of the empire.
Aison who learns that he will be engaged together with the news that Arkiton's marriage is near fell ill in an instant.
He couldn't take the blow.
Arkiton promises him, they promise each other but why?
Why would Arkiton walk in an aisle with a person who is not him?
When Aison fell ill, Celisha take it as an opportunity and visit the Marquis Household almost every day which causes the rumor to intensify as Arkiton who wanted to oppose his father and run away was hit hard upon learning that his sweetheart will marry a woman. Arkiton feels betrayed and together with the news that his father has been telling him, he was really betrayed.
No wonder Aison won't any longer reply to him.
No wonder Aison ignored him.
Celisha who have been going to the Marquis Household would check the post box and when she saw a letter she will grab it and tell her servant to burn it. She is aware of who Aison liked because the Marquis has been telling her that in order to keep Aison by herself, she must block his son's way out. Krishna thinks so too so she will have this routine of checking the postbox or even stealing Aison's half-done letter.
She even begs her father to release news of her and Aison's engagement.
And Aison, who slowly open up with Celisha, accepted the marriage. He and Arkiton married at the same time which is unbeknownst to them. It was only after being married that the news circulated around, then they knew that they married a woman at the same time, which ended their love and replaced by hatred with the thought of betrayal.
Celisha successfully married her love and has another obsession with bearing a seed and giving birth to a child with their blood but Aison refuses to touch her.
Celisha got angry and panicked.
She visits her father-in-law and cries, saying that Aison refuses to impregnate her and won't even touch her in their chamber. This made the Marquess mad so he scolded his son for being ungrateful. Still, despite his father's anger, Aison refuses to make her wife pregnant.
Celisha cries and writes a letter to his father.
When she got a reply, she was surprised to receive a white power in a folded paper and his father told her to put it in her husband's drink and food.
Celisha is happy and jumps around, ordering her servant.
Three weeks after being married, Celisha successfully become pregnant. However, every night she would hear her husband crying and refusing to step inside their chamber, burying himself with paperwork in the office.
Celisha had a red face with anger and blame Arkiton for seducing her husband.
She writes a letter to her father again, announcing her pregnancy. What she didn't know is that her pregnancy will trigger Arkiton's madness. Aison who is locking himself inside his office was raped by an intruder and that intruder is Arkiton who forces Aison to drink a potion and set up a spell.
One night that started a mess.
And he, Eugene Aimer Shradinza, and Casimin Inolliet Del Viltaria are the product of that night's affair.
A product of revenge.