Chapter 228: Time Paradox

"My name is Faith, Pandora Faith. You can call me Faith. Nice to meet you," Faith said with a genuine smile on her face.

'Even though she has such a nice name, she did something unfaithful to Nero.'

Zeus glanced at Faith with a smile on his face and said, "Your name is going to get changed soon, though."

Faith furrowed her brows and said, "To what? You don't even have a family name."

"I don't need one. You will be called Faith Zeus," Zeus proclaimed.

"That sounds like a cult name," Faith remarked.

'After a month? So that means they are going to get married in a month. She is going to betray Nero on their wedding day…'

Emilia witnessed how happy Zeus looked when he talked with Faith.

'What is this feeling? I know it's not jealousy because I am used to it by now. It's something else. The Nero I know is different from Zeus. Even though they are the same person, they seem different. Even though he is my Nero, I don't feel the same way I feel when he touches me. This feeling is… disgust.'

Emilia was feeling disgusted after being touched by someone other than Nero. She rolled down from Zeus' arms and fell to the ground.

"Oh!" Zeus exclaimed as he tried to catch Emilia, but he couldn't protect her from hitting the ground.

"Are you okay?!" Faith and Zeus asked with a concerned look on their face. Faith turned to Zeus and said with a furious look on her face: "You should have paid more attention."

"I was… she.."

"It's not his fault," Emilia stated and tried to stand up, but her body was still unstable.

"You shouldn't force yourself to move if you can't move," Faith said with a worried look on her face.

Emilia had recently learned a new technique with Asteria, using which they could control and move their body using magic. The main reason they learned it is to use it when they have sex.

As Asteria and Sophia couldn't keep with Emilia's energy of moving their body during sex, they learned this technique, and Emilia improvised it.

She stood up using that technique and began to walk. Faith and Zeus glanced at each other with confused looks on their faces and wondered, "What happened to her?"

After walking for a few minutes, Emilia asked, "Where are we going?"

"To the capital, Olimpo kingdom," Zeus replied. "But first, we will go to the guildhall and get you healed."

'It's the kingdom where everything started. Princess Astrea should also be there in the palace. But now is not the time to meet her. I don't know why I am here, but if I am here, then I have to take care of some… no, many things.'

Emilia had decided that she would prevent everything, but she knew that it was impossible. Everything happened on Zeus' wedding day, and there was still a month left.

'There is no way I can stay away from my Nero for more than a week.' Emilia thought to herself. 'What can I do to prevent all that?'

After pondering for a while, an evil thought crossed Emilia's mind: 'What if I kill her?'

'If Nero saw me killing her, I am sure he would hate me, but… I won't exist. If I kill her before she betrays Nero, then I will never be born. That means Nero will hate me, not her. But…' Emilia furrowed her brows and wondered with a confused look on her face: 'But if I am never born, then I will never come back in time and kill her. And if I didn't kill her, she would betray Nero, and I would be born.'

Emilia has never been so confused in her life. However, it wasn't her fault. Everyone would react the same.

'So does that mean I cannot kill her even if I wanted to? But…' Emilia glanced at Faith, who was walking with Zeus while holding hands with him. She looked truly happy, and her smile was innocent.

'When I look at her, I feel a sudden urge to punch her in the face.' Emilia clenched her fists in frustration and thought, 'What was she thinking when she betrayed Nero? I am the sign of her betrayal! I still can't believe she is my mother, but our resemblance proves everything. I wonder why Nero never realized it? I can tell at first glance that I look like her. Unless…'

Emilia glanced back again, but this time, she looked at Zeus, who was busy flirting with Faith.

'Unless… he doesn't remember her? Maybe he hated her so much that he forgot how she looked like? Is that even possible? But I can't think of any other reason.'

'However, I need to find the correct opportunity to kill her. I can't kill her when Nero is around, or I will end up dead. If I want to be alone with her, then I need to gain Nero and her trust and to do that, I need to act friendly with her.'

Emilia had to do the very thing she hated. She had to act friendly with Faith, who was her mother and the reason for all her life problems. 

After Faith betrayed Nero, he stopped believing in love, and because of that, Emilia never received Nero's love, or so she thought.

'How far is the kingdom?' Emilia asked, trying to act friendly with Zeus and Faith.

"About ten minutes walk," Zeus replied.

Emilia furrowed her brows and asked, 'What were you two doing in the forest, anyway? I am sure there has to be a better way to enter the kingdom.'

Faith and Zeus glanced at each other from the corners of their eyes. Faith's face flushed, and she averted her gaze while Nero scratched his cheek with his finger and replied, "We had some things to do."

"..." Emilia bit her lips in jealousy and wondered, 'Why are they acting like that? They shouldn't be having sex since Nero said I was his first, so…'

Emilia stopped when she remembered what Sophia had once said to her.

'Heh! You were just proud of that, and who knows if you truly were his first or not? Unlike us girls, boys don't have any proof that they were a virgin.'

Then, a thought crossed Emilia's mind. 'What if he lied to me?'

Suddenly, someone came flying through the trees and fell on the ground in front of Zeus and Faith.

"Lucifer…" Zeus muttered.