Extra's Death: I Am the Son of Hades novel Chapter 197

Left with no other choice, Neo spent his time watching Morrigan.

Much to his surprise, she passed him a plate a few minutes later.

"…?"

"…I don't like how you keep staring at me. Here, you can have it. Don't say I didn't share anything."

Neo's lips twitched when he saw the half-eaten dish.

He shook his head and took it.

Just as he was about to start eating, his device rang.

"A call?"

He noticed it was from Amelia and picked it up.

"N-Neo?"

Amelia's voice cracked as she sniffled.

"Mom, sh-she… come here quickly, Neo… please…."

Neo's face hardened.

He stood up swiftly.

"I'm on my way."

….

Elizabeth's mind was muddy.

The last thing she could recall was defeating the Void Tainted.

She had tortured a lot of information out of him.

After leaving the Dream dimension, she attacked other branches of Void Temple she had found out about.

She was injured, with half a foot in the grave after the battle with Void Tainted, but there was no time to rest.

The members of Temple of Void would escape.

Elizabeth had to deal with them before they knew the Void Tainted was defeated.

She couldn't recall anything after that.

Her head throbbed painfully.

"D-don't hit me, please…"

The voice snapped her out of the daze.

She looked around and noticed a little girl.

The little girl had silver-white hair and blood-red eyes.

"It hurts… stop…."

The girl curled as the blue-haired man kicked her repeatedly.

"Fuck! I lost the fucking bet!"

"S-stop…"

"Shut up! Fuck, did I give permission to you to talk!? Now even you are ignoring me!?"

The man left after he had taken out his anger on her.

The little girl continued to cry.

"It hurts…."

Tears slipped from her swollen eyes and mixed with the blood flowing out from her bruised lips.

Black and purple marks throbbed on her limbs and torso after the man's– her husband - beating.

She lay broken on the floor, bleeding.

Painful memories surged in Elizabeth's mind.

The scene before her eyes changed.

The little girl had grown up.

She came of age, and her womanly features began to show, revealing her alluring appearance.

However, her gaze remained vacant.

The girl stared at the screen.

She watched the drama depicting the love life of a princess and her prince with murky eyes.

"A princess… I-I'm a princess too. Will I be treated like that when I grow up?"

The blissful smile on her face disappeared when the door was smashed open and her husband entered, drunk.

Elizabeth, who had been watching everything from the side, clutched her chest.

"This is a dream… It's just a nightmare…"

She took deep breaths to calm herself.

The painful memories of her childhood were but a thing of the past. She repeated those words to herself.

Elizabeth was breathing heavily.

Her eyes quivered.

The scene changed.

She saw a woman looking down from the castle's windiw.

The woman had a similar face as that of the little girl.

However, her cold expression was vastly different.

Unlike the girl who had spent her life waiting for help, living on others' terms, the woman had taken control of her life in her own hands and cut down those who went against her.

"It's time," the woman muttered. "Should I ascend?"

Elizabeth recalled that moment.

It was long before the symptoms of the curse appeared.