Chapter 572 - 572: Better Than Two
"I'm not even sure if I can resist my mother for long. She's already threatening me about killing herself if I don't agree."
"So you'll marry that brat?" Lucifer asked.
"Brat?" Amelia burst into laughter. "Yeah. That sounds accurate. But if it stops my mother from taking her own life, I would ultimately be willing to sacrifice myself. I resisted as long as I could. But I don't think I have more time."
"So the poison is still hiding in your body..." Lucifer muttered.
"Yeah. It's like a parasite. It only grows stronger with each passing second. You can kill them, but when even one is left, it grows and multiplies again," Amelia answered, sighing.
"Parasite," Lucifer muttered, rubbing his chin. He had an idea.
'If I send my parasite inside to swallow the poison and come out...?' he thought; however, he soon dropped the idea.
He had already experienced this with Lynx. The parasite couldn't survive inside the body of these High Beasts.
Inside Lynx's body, it was destroyed by fierce lightning. And inside the body of Amelia, it was going to be destroyed by heat and fire before even getting to the poison.
There was really no way to destroy the poison inside her body. Even his healing could only heal himself and not others.
Lucifer went silent.
"What happened? Are you thinking about how to save me?" Amelia asked. "It's impossible. You don't have to waste your time with my poison. Maybe he's what I deserve for failing to save your money and the lady who treated her even better than my mother."
Lucifer turned to her but didn't answer. There were many things in his head right now.
"Huh, looks like we're already in the city. I didn't even realize how fast this journey was with you. Well, thank you for everything. And thank you for helping me with the poison." Amelia slowed down after reaching the city.
Lucifer also stopped.
"The few days of relief that you gave me... I could never thank you enough. You are just as kind as your mother was. Anyway, good night." Amelia flew towards her mansion.
Even though she talked as if everything was normal, Lucifer understood many complicated things from her tone. She was certainly pretending to be fine with it.
"As kind as my mother?" Lucifer muttered. "You're wrong. I will never be as kind. She died because of her kindness and stupidity. I shall never be that kind for strangers..."
Even though he spoke firmly while turning back, he couldn't help but glance back at Amelia, who was flying away alone, shining brightly in the darkest of night.
Shaking his head, he flew back to the Snow Clan Mansion.
He walked inside the mansion.
"There you are! We were looking everywhere for you! Where did you go?" As soon as Lucifer entered the mansion, he met Hun, who was relieved to see him.
"I went outside to get some fresh air," Lucifer replied.
"Sigh. Young friend, you shouldn't go out. You know how risky it is? I was worried that you were caught by the Thunder Lions. So glad it wasn't the case. Come, dinner is ready!"
"Oh right, what happened to your clothes? Why are you wearing different clothes now?"
"My clothes got dirty on the way. I bought new ones," Lucifer explained, following Hun.
"Ah! There you are! You worried us all so much!" Yui also exclaimed, seeing Lucifer.
"I didn't expect I would worry you all. I apologize." Lucifer calmly responded.
He seriously hadn't expected them to even care this much.
Lucifer met up with Salazar and walked to the dining table.
Jenilia was left behind with Gon since he wasn't allowed to sit in the dining hall. Food was served to him in his room. And Jenilia also had dinner in the room.
The two youngsters reached the Dining Hall and took seats around each other.
"You're back. I thought you left the city," Hun's father asked Lucifer.
He had thought that Lucifer was scared after he exposed the fact that he knew Lucifer's true identity. He was a bit disappointed at the cowardice of Lucifer.
"Not leaving just yet," Lucifer replied, smiling. He started eating.
...
It was midnight. Almost everyone had gone to sleep except Lucifer and Salazar.
Lucifer had already told Salazar to stay away since they were going to leave tonight
At exactly twelve in the night, Salazar came out of his room. Lucifer also stepped out at the same time.
The two of them sneakily left the mansion.
None of them realized that there was a man who was looking at them, leaving through the window of his room.
"Now, where might you be going in the middle of the night?" he muttered, smiling.
...
Lucifer and Salazar flew through the city in the middle of the night to reach the Thunder Lion Mansion. There were no guards outside the mansion since they never worried about someone intruding. Just their reputation was enough.
However, Lucifer did find one person standing near the mansion.
He went down with Salazar. "What are you doing here?"
"Shouldn't I ask you the same question? Since you said, you weren't going to do something this stupid?" The red-haired woman before him replied. "I came here before I had a feeling that you'll come here. And it looks like I was right."
"Yeah, you were right. Now leave!" Lucifer let out, keeping his voice low.
'These two seem close. I wonder when this happened." Salazar thought, standing in the back.
"I'm not leaving. If you want to do this stupidity, I'm going to be with you. Let me help!" Amelia insisted. "You helped me today. It's time I help you too!"
"You! You are an idiot; you know that? Why do you care about what we do? You have no reason to take part in it!"
"You're wrong. Just as she was your mother, she was also someone to me! I also want to know what happened to her as much as you want to! I'm also hurt by her departure, just like you are! So yes, I do have a stake in it too!" Amelia responded firmly.
"I think we shouldn't argue. She is strong. She should be able to protect herself. Let's take her as well." Salazar chimed in.
He wasn't sure what the argument was about, but he knew that it was better to have three strong beings when invading this place than two.
"We'll just be wasting time otherwise," he continued.
"Fine! You can come as well! But I want you to stay in the back. Let us take the lead and keep your mouth shut!" Lucifer declared, finally allowing her to help.
"I promise!" Amelia nodded.
The three of them turned to the mansion.