The Demon's Bride

Chapter 685: Forty Eight Hours-III

Elise didn't bother or waste her emotion on Mila any longer. The woman had wronged her and she didn't want to keep feeling hurt by hardening her heart.

"It wasn't a lie when I said you reminded me of my mother. You were once a mother figure to my eyes, but i have learned how different you are to her," said Elise while looking at Mila. "She will never hurt those people who are innocent."

Mila scoffed and shook her head, "It's because you are on his side that's why you hadn't seen the gravity of his action. You don't know how much blood that he has on his hands. But deep down, I'm sure you know how bloodied that hands that you are holding right now."

Elise shake her head at Mila, "If it's about blood, I have blood on my hands and so are you."

Mila who was frowning realized how her hands had been untied and quickly she tried to reach out toward Elise when she noticed clear glimmering red liquid dripping all over her hands. Mila's first reaction was to gasp and push away her hands from her face, thinking it was her blood and preparing to feel pain when she realized how there wasn't a single blood from her hands.

When she lifted her face, she saw Elise had standing in front of her. Unlike Mila's expression that was fulled with anger and now shock, Elise's expression was calm but deep in her calm blue eyes was a hidden anger that slowly replaced her calm gaze with a calm-before-storm gaze.

"Don't look away," Elise grabbed the woman by her hand and placed her hand over her eyes again. "This blood, do you see? It's the blood of those whom you had assisted to kill. Not taking a life doesn't mean you are not killing and you don't share the guilt. You also participated in hurting these people."

"I don't care," Mila scoffed with a curling grin. "When he killed my family, does he ever think the effect of his action? He had what's coming for him. He deserve his death! My only regret is how I can't kill him for eternity."

Elise who couldn't bear the sweet memories she had with Mila to be further destroyed by the woman's misunderstanding and swiped her hands to her side. Jett appeared beside her as a black blowback of shadow. "Show her," Elise ordered.

Jett quickly flattened itself on the thin air, spreading its body to form a mirror-like substance beside Elise. "You have to know what mistake you did, Mila."

Mila frowned at what Elise wanted to convey, expecting this to be another form of punishment that she had prepared for her but the woman, like the days she had spent in Hell, thought that she could withstand all tortures in Hell as she believe her action was just and correct.

However, those ideas of her was quickly shown as false when the mirror showed the truth of what happened to the past. How, actually, Ian had came when the attack ended and that it wasn't him who had killed her dearest husband and daughter.

Mila appeared shaken to core while watching the truth unfolded before her eyes. "No… No way… you are lying to me again! Trying to sway my mind with your twisted fake illusions!"

Elise narrowed her eyes while watching Mila who still defended her misunderstanding. "It was pitiful watching you to me, Mila. I know that deep down, somewhere deep in you, you are a kind person, perhaps a good mother. It could have continued to be so if not for how the wrong and right had been switched before your eyes. The true person who had killed your husband and daughter wasn't Ian. It was instead the man whom you have been serving, Mila."

Mila took her time to comprehend what Elise said and once she had understood, her words were quick to say, "NO! YOU ARE LYING TO ME!"

"Lying, lying, and lying," Ian waved his hand in annoyance. "You're wasting our time, woman. True, I could forge an illusion to show you, but do you really think we have a reason to forge an illusion to you? So what? So you can believe in us? Do you know how much waste of time it is for me to come here and show you this? How is doing any of this beneficial for us?"

Ian shook his head, "To think I was killed by such a foolish human being, tch."

Elise watched how panic filled Mila slowly grasped her mistake. Strangely, unlike the time she had killed Apollyon and felt relieved, Elise could only feel an itch on her heart seeing how slowly Mila's face grew pallid. There was no satisfaction but only pity but even that pity hurt Elise as it symbolizes the amount of care she still had to Mila.

Elise released her grasp "I came here on behalf of your husband and daughter. He wishes to say goodbye to you. In his entire journey, all he did was refusing the grim reaper's invitation to lead him to the afterworld. But it's too unfair for him to continue stay in this world as there's only a certain amount of time for soul to remain in the mortal world before they are force to disappear. If they disappear, the chance for them to go to Hell or Heaven is close to nonexistent."

Ian held her hands as if to tell her to stop there which Elise did. Looking at Mila, Ian then said, "You're pitiful, Mila. You got the wrong person to kill, killing the innocents, unable to kill the true murderer of your family, assisting him to kill me instead," Ian had unfolded his fists as he listed the amount of misdeed Mila had done. "Hm, that's not all but you can get a gist of how much mistake you did, didn't you? Elise had given her sentence to you. Now, forever, and ever, you will never be able to meet them. Not even when you are reincarnated again. Because you will never have that chance on your hand Mila."

"This is not only my punishment," added Elise, "But also to calm down the wrath of the people whom you have killed when you were still alive."

"No…no!" Mila shouted, trying to reach Elise's dress but Elise didn't turn back and keep striding forward as she had decided to not look back again.

Elise still feel her heart weigh heavily but she didn't let herself to be dragged down by the same emotion for hours as there was more things for her to look froward for. "Let's meet your mother," Elise said to Ian who looked at her with a faint chuckle.

"I don't mind meeting your mother first," offered Ian. "As her son in law, I have to create a great impression to her. One that would make her instantly agree to our marriage."

Elise chuckled, "But I wish to see Lady Lucy as well," she said. Last time she had seen Lady Lucy was the moment when the woman died. There was a lot of things Elise wished to share to the woman, and like Ian, she was over the moon with the chance for them to visit their mother.

"If you insist, I would gladly take this opportunity," Ian smoothly replied. He slid his hand underneath Elise's and in a blink of an eye, they were flying on the sky, making a way to Heaven, a place which would be Elise's first time to see.

When she was young, she wondered what was beyond the sky and clouds, it turned out, like most people's belief, the top of the sky wasn't the blue sky that she had always seen but it was clouds over clouds before a wide and tall golden gate that stood proudly come to appearance.

Elise had used the help of Ian's wings until they both stopped at the front of the golden gate. As they appeared, directly they were greeted with a hostile glare from the angels who had been standing on guard near the gate.

"A demon!" Shirked one of the guard. They were surprised because to their knowledge not many could cross the clouds and come to see Heaven. The procedure of arriving to Heaven, was in fact, take more than only crossing the clouds. It was only achievable by angels yet Ian had done it in first try without a hitch. Not to mention, Ian's presence was no less than his uncle or his grandfather in law which threw Heaven into chaos instantly.

They looked at him wearily and seeing his feathery wings, their eyes narrowed. The wings were undoubtedly the angel's wings but the pitch black color was far from the usual white wings of their own. It was like a black swan amongst the groups white ones.

"Lower your weapon," a gruff voice come from behind. Ian leaned his head to the side while Elise greeted the angel with a smile.

"Lord Michael!" One of the angel opposed but when seeing Michael's eyes narrowed, the angel wasn't able to do anything and immediately lowered their weapon.

"The effect of the reward are still ongoing. If your wish to go to meet anyone, you could do it now and visit for the last time again tomorrow," advised Michael kindly. Elise thought he would be the strictest angel among the others. But the truth was, he might be one of the very few flexible angel in all heaven.?"Come in," Michael clipped.

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