Chapter 1087: Chapter 1087: The Return of the 2nd
"Why the fuck do you look so gloom?"
"Because of everything, Sister."
There was a certain sense of peace whispering between Hannah and Riley as they just sat there on a bench, staring at the endless horizon in front of them. Ever since everything that could happen happened to them, the two rarely even got a moment for themselves anymore.
Hannah has thought a lot about the past 600 years - about how she could not forgive Riley for all of his actions and evil deeds. But that wasn't true at all. Because even before he left for the Domain of the Gods, Hannah had actually already forgiven him.
It was fucked up, for sure. But he is her brother.
"Let's just fucking stay here," Hannah let out a very long and deep sigh as she rested her head on Riley's shoulder, "Forget everything and just stay here. Fuck it, let's do it - let's just stay here and take care of some goats."
"Why goats, Sister?"
"Shit, I don't know," Hannah let out a small giggle as she punched Riley's thigh for no reason at all, "I guess they're more annoying to look at than you. Or maybe we could just fucking adopt a kid or something and just co-parent it."
"Like parents?"
"What the fuck? Ew, no. Stop being disgusting," Hannah raised an eyebrow, "But let's adopt someone who already graduated college so we won't have to pay for anything. I mean, Karina's already old enough already."
"What about Rennalyn and the others, Sister?"
"Rennalyn? Who the fuck is that?" Hannah leaned away from Riley as soon as she heard that, "Wait... don't tell me you have another child I don't know about!? You-"
"This will not work," Riley then let out a small sigh before placing a finger on his head, "Pavoom."
And as soon as he said that, the walls of the Black Tower once again filled his sight. He just pulled out his arm while shaking his head.
"He's... he's out. He didn't go with it again?"
There were a lot of people there surrounding the Black Tower - more so than the last time Riley was there. All of them were looking at him and whispering to each other. Riley, however, ignored all of them and just once again placed his arm into Black Tower.
And everyone watched as he just once again failed after a few minutes, once again in the very same scenario.
"Hm..." Riley was about to insert his arm again, but before he could do so, Angela approached him with a glass of milk in hand.
"Welcome back, Darkday," Angela let out a small sigh as she handed the drink to Riley, "You really should rest first - you're not making any progress."
"Crimson Paladin," Riley thought about inserting his arm again, but just let out a sigh as he nodded and grabbed the glass from Angela, "Are there changes I need to know?"
"No," Angela gestured to Riley to walk with her back to the tent, "I just think you need a change in perspective. The Pope's here, maybe you can talk to him about how to proceed next?"
"Perhaps I will do that," Riley nodded as he followed Angela, finally taking notice of all the people staring at him, "There seemed to be a lot more people here, Crimson Paladin."
"Believe it or not, most of them are your supporters."
"Supporters?" Riley tilted his head to the side.
"Yup," Angela shrugged, "Don't tell me you forgot about the religion you made?"
"No. It just did not seem to appear to be relevant."
"My Lord... My Lord!"
And as the two were walking back to the Black Tower, one of the people from the crowd suddenly approached them and started groveling in front of Riley while holding up a photo
for him to see,
"Please... please bring back my daughter!"
"My Lord Riley! Please, my wife... my wife might still be out there! Even... even if it's a
variant, I just want to see her one last time. Please!"
"Hm?"
"Your cardinal, Elizabeth..." Angela let out a small sigh as she saw the confusion on Riley's
face.
"I remember her."
"She somehow got the information that you were... converting Paige's creations and bringing
them into the real reality," Angela let out another sigh while looking at the crowd, "And like the good Cardinal she is, she spread the word and now everyone thinks you're the next coming
of the messiah."
"Interesting," Riley let out a small hum.
"...Most of these people know that their friends and families have died," the tone of Angela's voice became weaker as she looked at the tears of the people begging Riley, "And they're just
hoping that maybe... Paige created a copy of them out there."
"Okay."
"Everyone, please!" Cardinal Elizabeth then raised her voice as she moved between the crowd
and Riley, "Our Lord is already trying his best to bring everyone - if your family or your friends are alive... they will be here! Just trust in our Lord like he trusts in us! All Hail Riley
Ross!"
"All Hail Riley Ross!"
"Still think they're irrelevant?" Angela snickered as he looked at Riley, who was already walking away, "...Really? Can't you-"
Before Riley could actually reach the Black Tower, however, someone managed to squeeze through Elizabeth's blockade and rushed toward Riley. But instead of groveling in front of him, however, she just stood right in front of him; looking him directly in the eyes.
Riley stared back at this woman for a few seconds while tilting his head to the side. And after a
few seconds, he realized who it was.
"Dark Fro-"
Before he could finish his words, however, Tomoe Reynolds slapped him on the face.