Chapter 66. Inevitable Fate - 4

66 66. Inevitable Fate - 4

A frown appeared on Miira's face as she heard Orion's question. Though she didn't know why Orion asked her this mysterious question, she still pondered it for a while before replying to him.

"I don't know why you asked that," she said, looking at Orion. "But my mother said that there is no such thing as fate or destiny in this world. What you do eventually becomes your fate. So I think your question is stupid according to this logic. You die when it's your turn; you live if it isn't. It's that simple." n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

The words she spoke were so deep that Orion didn't understand a thing. He barely made sense of what she said in the last part.

'I die if it's my turn; I live if it's not.'

But he had already died once. So what did it mean? His turn to die had come or...gone.

"Why did you ask that question?" Miira asked after seeing Orion ponder her words so deeply. "Do you think you will die?"

Orion gazed at her, preparing to respond, when her body abruptly exploded into pieces, showering him with blood and bits and pieces of her.

"Ah!"

He still stared at the position in which she stood, but his blood-soaked eyes were filled with horror. He couldn't believe that happened. He was just talking to her a moment ago, and now she was gone.

"So, that's where you ants are hiding. I was getting bored with all the waiting, so I thought, why not give you guys a surprise? Do you like it?"

In that instant, a voice resonated throughout the boat, and as everyone heard it, their bodies erupted into pieces like bursting watermelons, sparing no one.

Orion, still reeling from shock at what happened to Miira, failed to heed the voice. However, this ignorance didn't alter the outcome, as he soon felt something stirring within him before his body, like the others, exploded into pieces.

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Orion once again found himself back in the boat, but he still hadn't gained his senses.

"Why? Why? Why did this happen? WHY?"

He suddenly murmured to himself before that murmur turned into a shout, attracting everyone's attention in the boat towards him.

"Calm down and tell us what happened," she said, trying to calm Orion down.

Orion didn't even look at her and was only staring at someone beside her. He feared that if he talked and looked at her, she would again die.

"Agggahhhh!"

But in that moment, he heard Miira's scream, causing him to swiftly divert his attention to her when he saw something horrifying happening to her.

He saw Miira's hands begin to morph into straw-like tendrils, resembling noodles from the earth, and all the while she screamed in agony. Blood gushed from her hands, pooling on the floor of the boat like a river.

Soon, her legs underwent the same transformation, followed by her torso, and finally her head. At the end, she completely transformed into straw-like pieces, collapsing onto the blood-soaked floor of the boat.

It was not just her, but everyone went through the same process, filling the floor of the boat into a bloody pond where straw-like pieces of them moved like snakes in the water.

Orion wasn't an exception. He screamed in agony as his hands and legs started to transform into straw-like pieces. The pain he felt was as if someone were actually cutting his hands into thin straw-like pieces.

He quickly activated his curse—Sacrificial Renewal because of it. That way, he wouldn't feel any pain, even if he were to die.

When the transformation reached his head, he only heard a voice in his mind before everything turned dark for him.

"You can fool me once; you can fool me twice; but you can't fool me three times. I will be waiting for you on the other side."

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A/N: My friend said it works but I don't believe it.

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