Chapter 124

Translator: NovelMultiverse | Editor: NovelMultiverse

“Lyra-san!! Please be alright!” Makoto took Lyra’s arm and gripped it tightly. She had lost all the color in her face and turned completely pale.

Makoto kneeled beside Lyra. His hand was stained bright red by Lyra’s blood, and it clung like a sticky paste onto his clothes. 

“I’m going to help you!” I cried, and gathered as much magical energy as I could to cast upon Lyra has healing magic. Yuki also cast healing magic onto Lyra from beside me.

Lyra’s body began to gently glow a pale light. Our healing magic was enveloping her body.

“Lyra… Please, open your eyes.” I said.

“Lyra…” Yuki muttered.

We continued casting healing magic upon her in desperation, but Lyra would not open her eyes. Makoto grasped Lyra’s wrist to check her pulse, but apparently, it wasn’t returning. Despair began to overtake the three of us.

“Lyra…”

“Lyra-san…”

“Lyraa…”

As we all whispered Lyra’s name over and over as if in prayer, suddenly, a powerful wave of light came over us.

“I’m sorry. Lyra-san cannot be saved. After all, her heart has been destroyed. No matter how much healing magic you conjure, once a person is dead, you can’t bring them back.”

There was no one around. The voice was coming from some invisible speaker. It had a strange tone to it that sounded male, but also female at the same time.

Of course, I already knew whose voice it was.[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]

“Goddess…” I said. Yes, this was the goddess who had called Makoto and Yuki into this world. 

“Ah. It appears I have made a mistake. I meant to invite people to this world to defend you from Edward, but since that other man died at nearly the same time as Makoto and Yuki, I transported him, too, by accident… That must be why my power has been exhausted to this extent.”

The Goddess sighed a single deep sigh. However, her voice didn’t necessarily sound regretful.

“It’s my fault Lyra is…” I began but trailed off.

“Hmm. It’s not your fault, Rachel. It’s Naaotto’s. That man has a perverted way of thinking, doesn’t he? To think that he loves you in such a twisted way…”

I felt something on me as if the Goddess was petting me. I couldn’t see her, but I could sense a hand caressing my head.

“But, you know, Rachel. You should rest easy. Lyra’s soul is in you, young lady.” 

“What?”

“W-What?”

“What?” 

All three of us were stunned by the Goddess’s bombshell of a statement. What could it mean that Lyra’s soul was inside me?

“It’s just as I’ve said – Lyra’s soul and your soul were fused, Rachel. That’s what I mean. Two souls fused together can’t be separated easily, just like that.”

“Wait, what? So… that means?” Makoto was the first to respond to the Goddess’s words. He squinted with steady, suspicious eyes at the center of the light.

“Oh. Have you gone and realized? This is why I don’t like perceptive brats like you.”

It was as if a splinter was mixed into the Goddess’s words.

“No, I had a vaguely felt it, too,” I said, “There’s no way to restore two things that have been mixed up so thoroughly. It’s obvious once you think about it.”

“What!?” Makoto said, “So if Rachel and Lyra’s souls were fused, that means that from the beginning, only one of them could ever stay alive at once!?”

“…ah!” Yuki gasped at the realization of what Makoto has just said so matter-of-factly.

As for me, I was at a loss for words. From the moment I had gone into Lyra’s body, only one of us could continue living. And so, when the Goddess talked about me returning to my body, she meant, in other words, discarding Lyra’s life for me.  

“Correct. There’s nothing that can be done about things so mixed up. Rachel, you were on the brink of death during your delivery. In order to save you, I had to absorb your soul into Lyra – who was, like you, at death’s door.”

“Lyra was… at death’s door, too…?”[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]