Chapter 427
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“S-sniff.”
“I really hate it when beautiful women cry.”
As she cried for a long time, a welcome, nostalgic voice that made her heart flutter tickled her ears just by hearing it.
A voice that shouldn’t be heard here, the voice of the woman who should be with her daughter, was ringing out.
She wondered if she was hearing things, but when she turned her head, the white-haired woman who shouldn’t be here was smiling lovingly.
“Huh?”
“Especially if it’s my woman. Making you cry in bed is incredibly arousing, but I hate it when you cry so pathetically. Rayna would be sad, too.”
Rolling an ominously glowing orb of unknown origin in one hand, she briefly popped it into her mouth before approaching Rachel with confident strides.
“How are you back here…”
“Hello, Rachel.”
The white-haired woman, who had been smiling warmly at her - someone who was already a mere record - suddenly embraced her and planted a deep kiss on her lips.
Then, she whispered to Rachel.
“Stay here with me for just 100 years. I’ll take responsibility and get you out of this hell.”
“100 years?”
As Rachel made a puzzled expression, Yu Eunha twisted the corners of her mouth.
A rough explanation would probably suffice for now.
“To come back here, I had to pass through the past Elf Kingdom.”
“The past?”
“Yeah. A god told me I had to save the Elf Kingdom to come back here, so I went and saved it, then came back through the Archive.”
“I don’t quite understand what that means, but you’re saying you saved the world.”
Rachel forced a bright smile.
Regardless, it was a smile of gratitude toward the benefactor who saved her world.
At that pure smile, Yu Eunha felt a familiar tickle in her lower belly.
Yu Eunha wanted to devour Rachel right then and there.
But she needed to set the mood a bit more for something like this.
She planned to devour her after a more dramatic setup.
“Yeah. Of course. I have to do at least that much to make you mine.”
For a moment, a smile almost spread from ear to ear. But Rachel soon shook her head.
She needed to be realistic.
Rachel was a record. She had come too far to be considered a living being. Perhaps because of that, Rachel unknowingly raised her voice.
“But I’m…!”
“A record, right?”
“T-that’s right.”
Rachel gave a slight nod.
She hadn’t wanted to bring it up, but she ended up saying it anyway.
She didn’t know how Yu Eunha would react if she revealed she was a record. She thought Eunha might dismiss her because of it.
Or so she thought.
Unfortunately, Yu Eunha was a completely different breed.
As long as a woman was pretty, she was even more appealing with a record or whatever else.
Yu Eunha fully intended to bring Rachel back to life no matter what.
“But nothing is impossible for this Yongyong-i!”
“Huh?”
Just as Rachel felt confused.
Yu Eunha found and picked up the book connected to Rachel.
At first, Rachel wondered if Yu Eunha was trying to take the book outside.
But then, Yu Eunha pulled something out of her mouth.
Flicking her snake-like tongue, she retrieved what looked like an orb.
It was the very thing she had popped into her mouth a moment ago.
Rachel watched, wondering what on earth it was.
“It’s my fragment.”
“Fragment?”
A fragment? What kind of fragment?
Rachel couldn’t understand what Yu Eunha was talking about.
But one thing was certain: what Yu Eunha was saying might just grant Rachel a new life.
“If this is embedded in you, you’ll become like me.”
“Huh? What do you mean…”
Thwack!
There wasn’t even time to question it.
Because the Fragment of Aži Dahaka had just been slammed into the book Rachel originated from.
The book with the embedded fragment began to burn intensely.
And the intense flames burning the book soon began to seep into Rachel’s body, which was connected to the record.
An intense heat.
It was incredibly painful, but only for a moment.
Rachel felt something heavy and hot filling her entire body.
This was… something different.
Rachel’s body, having popped out of a record, was closer to an illusion.
It had substance, but it didn’t truly exist. Because of that, even when Yu Eunha raped her, she didn’t feel it that intensely.
She only felt her body was light, nothing more. That was how her body was supposed to be.
But now, she felt her five senses changing.
Her sense of touch, smell, hearing, sight, and everything else that had felt a bit off when she was a record returned to normal.
Rumble.
Her whole body boiled until she finally realized she was alive.
Of course, it was a little different from before. To be clear, the sensations were entirely new.
Suddenly, Rachel instinctively opened her mouth.
Because it felt like something… something was about to come out.
Fwoosh.
It was flames.
An incredible Skill - an ability that absolutely shouldn’t come from an Elf - had just manifested within her.
Rachel looked at Yu Eunha with a bewildered expression.
She figured Yu Eunha, who had just embedded that thing and brought her to life, would know the reason.
“Whoa. This is… Eh? Fire is coming out of my mouth?”
“You’re a Dragon-Elf now.”
A Dragon-Elf?
Rachel frowned at Yu Eunha’s words.
Even if Yu Eunha suddenly called her a Dragon-Elf, Rachel couldn’t understand what that meant.
“What’s a Dragon-Elf?”
“If I’m a Dragon-person, then you’re a Dragon-Elf.”
“No, wait. Does that mean I’ve become a dragon half-blood now?”
“Exactly.”
She is a half-blood of a dragon and an Elf.
To be precise, she wasn’t born between a dragon and an Elf.
Perhaps what Yu Eunha had earlier embedded in her was a Dragonheart or something similar.
Thinking about it that way, she couldn’t help but wonder if she had been given something incredibly expensive.
“Then am I alive right now?”
“You bet you are. Now you can have all the sex you want.”
“No, wait. Then… am I really… really alive?”
“I just said you are.”
Words couldn’t express it.
So easily. So simply.
Yu Eunha had effortlessly achieved the impossible.
When she heard that, how should she put it… an unfathomably deep sense of elation and resolve filled her chest.
Her heart felt like it was pounding so loudly she could hear it in her ears.
The existence known as Yu Eunha looked so, so incredibly lovely.
Yes. In a way, wasn’t this love?
No, maybe she was already in love.
She felt sorry for her husband, but it was only natural to feel affection for the savior who gave her life.
Of course, they were both women.
But hadn’t Eunha promised to give her a love that transcended gender?
Then, a sudden question came to mind.
“What about my daughter, then? Did you change my daughter like this, too?”
“Rayna became a Dark Elf.”
A Dark Elf.
When a normal Elf falls to corruption, they become a Dark Elf.
That was a fact she had known for a long time.
“No, why would you do that to a perfectly fine child…”
“Because Rayna wanted it, too.”
“But why aren’t I a Dark Elf?”
“Maybe because you were originally a record? Rayna herself existed as an Elf, but you were a record.”
“Is that so.”
Why did she feel so empty after hearing all that?
It was, how should she say, a very complex and subtle emotion.
It seemed her daughter had met a bad woman and become corrupted, but she herself had gotten involved with that same woman and been brought back to life.
So her feelings were complicated.
Rayna didn’t mind, if it was the path her daughter had chosen, but putting all that aside, it felt like all of this had happened in just a few days.
“Anyway. You’re mine now. When we get back, we’re going to have a mother and daughter threesome.”
“But how do we get out? What’s this about 100 years?”
“I was told we have to spend 100 years here to connect this place with the world I live in.”
“100. 100 years?”
100 years. She had never heard of such a thing.
By what logic did it take 100 years? No, more importantly, was she saying she would spend that long period here with her?
With what kind of confidence?
That exact thought crossed her mind, but this being, Yu Eunha, operated on a completely different level of common sense.
“Isn’t that a short time for an Elf?”
“In terms of lifespan, yes, but still, 100 years in this pitch-black place… It’ll be agonizing, won’t it?”
Right. In terms of lifespan, 100 years wasn’t a long time for an Elf.
But experientially, those hundred years could become an eternity of unbearable boredom.
Rachel wanted to make that point clear to Yu Eunha.
But Yu Eunha herself didn’t seem to care at all.
Why on earth would she go this far for someone she had barely seen, someone she had only met a few times?
“I don’t care.”
“You’re a real idiot. A hundred years just for that? For an Elf you’ve only known for a few days?”
“I fell in love at first sight, so isn’t that enough?”
Despite being someone who already had multiple women, she committed such an act because she fell in love at first sight?
She sure had a knack for spouting such pickup lines.
Suddenly feeling a bit annoyed, Rachel confronted Yu Eunha.
“Love at first sight, my foot.”
“They say you can tell everything about a woman just by looking at her appearance.”
It was certainly true that for a woman, appearance accounted for more than half of her worth.
“Wow. How should I even put this into words…”
“Just be honest and say thank you.”
Should she be thankful for this? Well, it was tricky to say she hated it, either.
Because she really did like it.
Love at first sight or not, it made no sense to throw away a hundred years of time even for someone you fell in love with at first sight.
Furthermore, though she hadn’t seen it herself, hadn’t Eunha said she saved the Elf Kingdom?
What did that mean? It was proof that she had risked her life fighting there, too.
In other words, it was just to save her.
She had truly saved her even from remaining a mere record.
The more she thought about it, the less she understood.
She wasn’t even a virgin, she was a royal from a bygone era locked in this prison, and she even had a husband.
She was risking her life and dedicating a hundred years for a woman like that.
Honestly, it was a one-sided favor, but…
If she received that much and just wiped her mouth clean, she would truly be worse than a dog.
I reiterate.
It was a situation where she couldn’t help but feel affection.
Rachel nodded.
“Ah, right. Right. Um. Thank you.”
“Then, should we have a round of sex first?”
“Crazy bitch.”
The words suddenly slipped out.
Seriously, that girl’s sex drive was truly something else.
Inevitably, there wouldn’t be many people who could handle such a pervert, so she would have to take care of herself.
And so, Yu Eunha and Rachel came to spend a hundred years together.