Huh?
Elsa let out a sound of surprise.
“The implication behind Sister’s words is pointing out that she is a Heavenly Oracle Envoy.”
“Sis… how do you know that?”
She lifted her little head and looked at her with an expression that was three parts confusion and seven parts fear.
Gabriella didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “I guessed.”
Even though she said that, seeing her little sister seek her out alone with a troubled look on her face, and even resisting the power of the Evil God, it was easy to tell.
Looking at the situation now, her guess had been correct. Elsa was actually a Heavenly Oracle Envoy as well.
How strange. But if Elsa was one too, wouldn’t that make her more likely to submit to the Evil God than Philina and the others?
After all, her silly little sister had already had shadow implanted in her by Liya.
“I… I remembered a lot of things.”
Elsa finally spoke.
“In the past, we were Heavenly Oracle Envoys who together protected humanity and carried out the [Mission], Lady Gabriella.”
“Mm.”
“It was a terrifying thing! So, Sister, you must never approach the Evil God, because…”
Elsa said agitatedly.
She recounted her experiences from when she had been a Heavenly Oracle Envoy.
It turned out that Elsa had once been as powerful a Heavenly Oracle Envoy as Liya, serving as the Goddess’s attendant in the fight against the Evil God.
However, there had been one time when she ventured to the bottom of the abyss, reaching the deepest level through the fissure.
Elsa had been caught off guard by the Evil God and dominated by shadow.
She described how it felt at the time… It was as if her thoughts had been hollowed out. All the hatred she held toward the Evil God in her mind, along with her sense of identity and belonging as a Heavenly Oracle Envoy, had been completely devoured and erased.
While all her memories remained in her head, her cognition had transformed her into the Evil God’s puppet—a slave loyal to her.
Every word spoken by the Evil God Isabella would turn into [Commands] that were instilled directly into her mind.
The sensation was like having a collar placed around her very soul.
Although Elsa had eventually managed to escape danger, that feeling was still difficult to forget.
“Lady Sister…”
Elsa poured out everything she had suddenly recalled to her sister without holding anything back.
It had been like one big family. Back then, they weren’t sisters yet, only ordinary Heavenly Oracle Envoys. The relationships among the Heavenly Oracle Envoys had originally been quite harmonious and amicable. That is, until Olivia passed away. After that, Gabriella seemed like an entirely different person.
This was what led Gabriella to turn her hostility toward the Evil God.
After recalling all of this, Elsa learned that Liya, Simona, and the Evil God planned to head to the human castle in search of Gabriella.
So she had secretly followed after them and found her sister. That was how they had met.
The horrifying scene she had imagined did not occur. Her sister still trusted her—as a Heavenly Oracle Envoy, as her sister—rather than viewing her as a fallen puppet.
“We were originally beings who upheld the light, Lady Sister…”
Elsa said in despair. At the same time, as if thinking of something, she placed her hand on her chest, which had already been imprinted with demonic patterns, and continued dejectedly:
“Yes, Elsa. Our ending was already fixed. But… but I… I can’t go back anymore.”
Gabriella was utterly confused. “Eh?”
Elsa’s delicate body trembled.
Being dominated by one’s master. To be honest, why fear the shadow? It actually felt rather comfortable. Gabriella quite liked that sensation of emptying her mind. What’s more, once she remembered that it was her soft, silly Demon King controlling her, she felt even more at ease.
In reality, while Isabella appeared on the surface like a ferocious raptor, clutching her prey tightly by her side without allowing the slightest chance of escape, the truth was that she would not cruelly devour the prey’s flesh and blood. Instead, she would only gently lick Gabriella with her tongue, caress her, and had even fallen in love with her.
“Silly girl. I understand you, Elsa.”
Gabriella tilted her head with a smile and lightly touched her little sister’s cheek with her finger.
“I don’t care who you were before. Right now, you are my little sister.”
“Lady Sister…”
“But I also need to take responsibility for the things that happened in the past.”
This was the first time Gabriella had expressed her true feelings like this in front of someone else. She now had a better plan in mind.
At this moment, Elsa’s gaze had once again drifted down toward the floor.
Her expression was complicated, as though she was struggling with a difficult decision in her heart.
“Silly little sister~?” Before Elsa could come up with a solution, Gabriella interrupted her thoughts with a gentle voice. “I’m going to find the Evil God. You can come with me.”
“Huh?”
“I won’t harm any humans. Whether you choose to stay behind or follow the Evil God, the choice is yours. I will protect you.”
With that, she released Elsa. Reluctance still lingered in the younger girl’s eyes.
Seeing her sister open the door, Elsa wanted to step forward to stop her. Yet upon sensing that evil shadow power, she shrank back slightly.
Thinking that she at least couldn’t let her sister face it alone, she followed after her.
“I-I’ll go with Sister.”
“Oh?”
“I want to go together as well. At the very least, I can help stabilize the humans and prevent their hatred. Sister’s wish is to protect the world, right?”
Gabriella thought for a moment. “Mm, of course~”
“I’ll go too.” Her little sister said softly. Clearly, she didn’t want to remain here alone, and her heart was also somewhat touched.
Gabriella pulled out a silver crystal from within her clothes. It was a portion of the Goddess’s power.
Suddenly, she felt that it was understandable why her silly little sister had been coaxed away by Liya.
She would trust someone after sensing just a tiny bit of goodwill.
“If you go out looking like this, I’m afraid you’ll be treated as a demon.”
“Then… what should I do…”
Gabriella turned around and walked back in front of Elsa.
The patterns on the back of her right hand glowed faintly. A golden magic enveloped her horns and transformed her pupils back into a clear azure blue, making her appear human once more.
She could draw upon part of Loli’s power, such as creating illusions to temporarily disguise her identity. Although she wasn’t as skilled as Loli herself, grasping the principle was enough.
Loli should currently have sufficient ability to reshape a new body.
But for some reason, she seemed unwilling to come out right now?
Still, for the current situation, she didn’t need Loli’s assistance.
The only thing that concerned Gabriella slightly was the recollection of Elsa’s time as a Heavenly Oracle Envoy.
All of this seemed somewhat strange.
In Gabriella’s mind, the past of the Heavenly Oracle Envoys was a melodramatic misunderstanding drenched in blood and tears.
Olivia had perhaps been killed through someone’s interference and the blame placed on Isabella, igniting Gabriella’s hatred toward the Evil God. This had led to the battle between the Evil God and the Heavenly Oracle Envoys, who already possessed fundamental conflicts.
However,
The reincarnations of the Heavenly Oracle Envoys and the Evil God seemed like an ancient mystery sealed away in the dark abyss. Even now, she had only glimpsed a corner of what was gradually being revealed.
Unconsciously, her hand came to rest on her wedding ring.