Chapter 2 - Prevent His Blackenin

Chapter 2: Prevent His Blackening

Camian spooned the stew and brought it closer to my mouth. I looked at the spoon disapprovingly.

“Open your mouth.”

“….”

I bit my lips. I knew it would prove difficult to get rid of him. I opened my mouth… stubbornly.

“You’re not leaving until you finish your bowl.”

The man who took care of my meal spoke in a harsh tone. He was the prince of devils and the world’s greatest villain – Camian de la Rose Hespion.

“I was going to eat it all even if you didn’t tell me,” I pouted.

Camian looked at me, his glance passive.

“Camian is the only one who can take care of our Liv.”

“Camian, I hope you’ll be by our Liv’s side. We’ll give you all our farms. What do you say?”

Debra and Jack, my aunt and uncle, gave a pleased smile. Debra pushed her plate of stew to the side and put her hand on the chin. She looked as if she was enjoying a movie.

“Don’t speak nonsense. Are you crazy?” Camian growled.

Thereafter, he put the spoon down.

Debra blinked. “I wish Camian could be a little more honest.”

“How can I be more honest than this?”

I snorted at Camian’s words inwardly. Debra knows you like me, Camian, Jack knows, and I know. But we’ll keep this little secret away from you.

“Come on. Just eat.”

Camian roughly grabbed the bowl and spooned the stew. He brought the spoon closer to me. He wore a scowl on his face. Frowning, I opened my mouth. I’ve been watching him over time. His stubbornness will be broken. I will break it.

*

15 years later.

Years had passed since Liv summoned Camian, the man who destroyed the world from grief and heartache after Liv’s death.

When I first opened my eyes to this world, I woke up to a boy with black wings standing at the center and kissing the back of my hand.

“The contract is sealed, Liv Klein.”

The seven-year-old Liv signed her first contract with Camian.

The Liv before me only wished for Camian to be her friend. She had a weak body and had difficulty befriending her peers. She craved a companion. And then, she chanced upon a Mana Summoning book and thus began her journey with Camian.

Looking back, the past fifteen years had been a difficult time. I had trouble accepting the situation I was suddenly placed in. I’d rack my brain all night, all week looking for a way back home, but the thoughts drained away. Five years in, my health deteriorated rapidly. Bloodshot pain and aches greeted me in the morning and I would pass out from a fever far too often.

I could feel life draining away from every breath I take. The fear of death knocks my bones and flesh. I would vomit blood, one that stained my clothing frequently. Death was ready to rip my whole body apart. I was afraid of death, but my desire for death soared. I’d lose consciousness, my limbs shaking from the terrible pain. I was hopeless, picturing in my head that I would die in an unknown world.

But it was Camian who took care of me with extreme care. To lower the fever, he’d constantly wipe me with a cold towel, feed me, and clean up after my blood and vomit… when I needed medicine every hour, it was Camian who stood at my side putting the medicine in my mouth like an alarm clock.

My weak body and shattered mind naturally learned to rely on Camian. If he was not there to care for me, I’d have been sucked into an eternity of pain and hell. I’m not sure why I did not give up… whether Camian patiently nursed me or that it was not my time to go, I do not know. All I know was that I gradually recovered from my sickness.

And since then, I knew that something inside me had changed.

When I was able to think more clearly, I was convinced that there was a clear cut reason that I came to this world and not by some freak accident. And I’d had the same dream since the day I was able to think clearly. It was when I was Lee Heewon, not as Liv.

‘If only I can enter the book… I’d prevent Camian’s blackening by all means.’

Right…

And then I came to my senses, my body covered in cold sweats. Unconvincing questions lingered in my head, but all the cells inside me screamed the answer, that I came here because of those whimsical thoughts.

And after that, I never dreamed of it again.

I knew what I had to do. I needed to prevent Camian’s blackening. It was the only way I can return back home. It was like a quest that can only be completed when a given condition had been achieved.