187 – Graham
Isabella was distressed.
Seeing myself in the parallel world and Ed in the parallel world was almost torture.
Not surprisingly, he constantly pushed Ed away.
After accepting his family’s fate, he focused only on accumulating negativity and cut off ties with Ed.
He said and did harsh things to Ed in the parallel world and used him as ‘material for negativity.’
[It’s okay. I can understand you.]
But even so, Ed did not leave himself.
Rather, he just stayed around like a beggar, telling people to use it as much as they could if they wanted to use it.
[····Where are you short of brains? Or is he a natural hustler? Stop being soggy and get out. Because our relationship is over.]
[······.]
However, she was harsh towards him until the end.
The more he tried to stay by his side, the more harsh and humiliating words he used, and eventually even physically hurt him.
The pain of having to push away the person you love and the guilt of hurting him or her are intense.
I thought this was how Ed would leave.
[····You are also suffering.]
However, Ed in the parallel world had already seen through him.
You already understand that you are not pushing him away because you really dislike him, but rather that you have no choice but to comply with the fate of your family.
He said with a sad smile.
[Someday… Someday, when your destiny is complete, then I will come to you again. Of course, you can always count on me when you change your mind.]
With those words, Ed from the parallel world left.
However, he just watched himself from afar.
Although it does not appear in front of him, he is constantly looking into himself and worrying about it.
“Why on earth….”
However, Isabella could not understand.
Why does Ed from the parallel world want to stay by his side like this?
All I gave him was a little love and an even bigger wound.
“····Ah.”
However, in the next moment, Isabella was able to understand Ed’s feelings.
Because she is currently looking into Ed’s memories, the emotions connected to Ed’s memories are also conveyed.
It was one of the common phenomena that occurred when one became overly immersed in other people’s memories.
“You…”
Ed’s love for himself.
It was actually a virgin.
He, who knows his fate for some reason, pities himself endlessly and offers his helping hand.
However, his sympathy eventually developed into feelings of love.
When a person full of misfortune laughs or becomes happy due to his trivial actions, that alone fills his heart, and this has developed into a feeling of true love.
Isabella could keenly feel Ed’s feelings.
[Get out. Because I’m sick of seeing your face now.]
But she only hurt Ed.
In the end, she was desperate to fill her denial by taking advantage of the man who loved her.
You fill your own negativity by causing great harm to the only person you ever loved.
“Ah… Ah…”
However, Ed’s feelings did not change.
Although he was hurt by his vicious attitude, his love for himself never wavered.
Rather, I just looked at myself with regret as I walked down the path of misfortune.
“······.”
A year has passed like that.
With that, he was finally able to qualify as the head of the family.
He pushed Ed away and walked into hell himself, filling up his power of denial and being able to stand up to ‘Adrian Graham’.
“···I am like that.”
However, at that point, he had already lost his humanity.
The only purpose of life was to fill negativity, and I could not feel any joy in life other than filling negativity.
He lacks the feelings of joy and happiness that every human being should have.
Of course, the person he hates the most is himself.
[····Now the end is in sight.]
But in exchange for letting go of his emotions, he was finally able to earn the right to escape his cursed fate.
Completed with denial, he returned straight to the northern territory and stood before Adrian Graham.
He who was sitting on the throne got up and laughed.
[It has become quite acceptable. But keep in mind. If you lose to me here, your sister will not escape death.]
A challenge to take the position of head of the family.
The father threatens to kill his older sister if he misses the opportunity to take on the challenge.
[Well, it doesn’t matter. If you want to kill, kill.]
However, he no longer cared about his sister’s life or death.
At this point, he had already lost his humanity, and his hatred for his older sister was greater than his affection for her.
Because the starting point that plunged his life into misfortune was his ‘affection for his sister.’
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From the moment his sister was taken hostage by his father, he has lived this life to save her sister.
In other words, he took upon himself the fate of his family in place of his older sister, who had gone crazy after accumulating infidelity.
[····Great. Now you are the real Graham.]
However, the father, who had gone crazy, actually smiled when he said that it would not matter if he killed his older sister.
Then he stretched out his hand and uttered the following words.
[Then show it. Your hatred.]
Puhuaaa!
A large amount of negativity poured out from Adrian’s hands.
The corner of his mouth twitched as he glared at Adrian with dead black eyes.
With just that, a large amount of negativity was unleashed and he began to confront his father’s negativity.
“······.”
The denial of each other in a back-and-forth battle of power.
However, soon after, the victory began to tilt in one direction.
Slowly, his denial overwhelms Adrian and begins to eat away at his denial.
[····Wow!]
In the end, Adrian, who was defeated in the power battle, fell to his knees.
His father, who had cursed him his entire life, had finally knelt before him.
[····It is my defeat. I will hand over the position of head of the family, so stop denying it.]
In the end, Adrian, unable to endure his denial, admitted his defeat.
When he finally stopped denying himself, he stood up unsteadily.
He said to himself, twisting the corners of his mouth.
[I raised a monster. To have accumulated so much negativity at that age…]
[······.]
Adrian Graham became the head of the Graham family at the age of 31.
However, he became eligible to become the head of the family much earlier than that when he turned 21.
Soon, Adrian called the head of the house, Bilson, and entrusted him with all the procedures related to the Bonjak.
[Now you are free. [Lead Graham in your own way.]
After Adrian handed over his position as the head of the family to Isabella, he suddenly left.
Following Graham’s old tradition, he left for the ‘desolation of the North.’
There is a legend that Graham’s true perfection is achieved in the northern ruins.
However, no one knew what the legend was about.
Some people said that he ascended to an ancient dragon after drinking the ichor hidden deep in the abyss, while others said that Graham, addicted to negativity, wandered around the place like a ruined person and met a miserable end by being eaten by monsters. .
In the end, only Graham’s former head of the family will know the truth, as his descendants have left for the dead of the North.
[······.]
However, the person in the parallel world had nothing to do with such things.
I had no interest in and did not want to know about the fate of the losers who were driven out to extinction.
What is important to you is that you have finally found freedom.
Now there is no longer any reason to live by accumulating negativity.
[Kuhhhhh····.]
But soon he was able to realize himself.
Now, he has no longer been able to feel ’emotion’ in anything other than accumulating negativity.
He realized that, like his father, he was addicted to the very act of accumulating negativity.
-You are my best gift.
At that moment, I remembered something my father once said.
Meaningful words my father said to me when I was young.
They say you are my best gift.
[·····Ah.]
And now he can understand the true meaning of those words.
The reason Adrian Graham has been tormenting himself and his sister all this time is because he felt pleasure from accumulating negativity in causing pain to his own children.
[Okay… I understand you now…]
It all starts at age 11.
It started when he killed the puppy he had raised with care with Enya.
In order to save her older sister, she dropped her puppy off a cliff and began accumulating ‘negativity’ for the first time in her life.
-Well done. Very well done!
But my father was smiling at himself.
He played a kind and gentle person until he was 11, but he finally revealed his true colors.
[Then I…]
You will soon become similar to your father.
After building a family solely to accumulate negativity, they will repeat the same behavior to their children.
And the spouse he will choose is…
“Ed.”
Edgar Fix in a parallel world.
He chooses the person who loved him generously as his spouse only to use him as material for infidelity.
And the child born with him will live the same life as himself, resenting his mother for the rest of his life.
[····Puhup. It’s a damn family.]
When I realized that fact, my self in the parallel world fell into depression.
I thought I could return to normal as long as I became the head of the family, but I only realized that I would have to live with this cursed fate for the rest of my life.
···From then on, he began to distance himself even more from Ed from the parallel world.
Knowing very well that his life would go down the drain the moment he was in a relationship with her, she pushed him away with harsher words and actions than before.
That was all she could do for him.
[····Ugh!]
Then one day.
I suddenly started to feel a headache that felt like it would break.
And the cause of the headache was some memory that was forcefully flowing in.
However, surprisingly, the content of the memory was about ‘Graham’s origins.’
[····Graham the Great?]
Graham the Great.
He is a legendary figure who first established a kingdom in the north.
He is also one of the ‘celestial people’ who came down from heaven to earth.
The memories of the mythical figure who spread civilization and magic to this world flow into my head.
“······.”
Isabella quietly looked into the memories of the mythical character.
To prevent the invasion of demons, he and his companions scattered to the four directions, north, south, east, west, and established a kingdom and established civilization.
The power they wielded was so powerful that mankind, who was just a primitive person, entered a civilized society in an instant.
-How is the progress?
However, there was a leader who encompassed such great beings.
A person called by the strange name ‘Cha Do-yoon’.
He possessed the most powerful power among the Celestials.
And Isabella could feel a strange sense of déjà vu from his appearance.
“·····?”
However, there was no time to think about Cha Do-yoon.
The screen changed in an instant and moved to the northern territory.
There, his progenitor was making love with a woman.
She was a beauty with a strange charm that could enchant people just by looking at her.
“····What is it, why…”
But strangely enough, when she saw her woman, her heart felt tight.
I got angry for no reason and couldn’t control my emotions.
I must have lost my emotions after accumulating negativity for so long, but I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t control my anger.
-I love you
-Me too. Sincerely, I love you.
But in my memory, the founder and the woman truly loved each other.
Although they had only met for a short time, the two vowed to be together forever, got engaged, and even had a child.
So their love seemed to be going smoothly.
-·····You.
But four years later, the war against the devil begins.
The love between the two eventually comes to a breakdown.
This is because the identity of the woman is ‘Lilith’, one of the great dukes of Hell.
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