Eve's POV
I have to get stronger. I have to!
After seeing THAT behind the wallpaper on Aisha's house, I'm completely sure I can't get Add, even if I force him. This makes me really upset, but I can't do anything about it.
I can't change someone's feelings!
It hurts me a lot. How can someone who appeared on his life months ago is far more important than me, who lived with him for years?! I gave him all my care and love, I helped him with all the funding he needed for his time travel experiment, I let him stay in my house, I made sure he's alive by giving him food, and a lot of other things!
How did he choose HER over ME and even treat me like a STRANGER?! HOW?!
"Eve, are you okay?! What's wrong?! You walked past me!"
I face the person and slap him hard. "Do I look like I'm okay, Elsword?!"
A-Ah...
"I'm... sorry..." I mutter an apology. This is the first time I let my emotion core take over. According to Elsword's questions, I didn't even notice him when I was walking. Now I slapped him out of nowhere...
Elsword looks at me with concerned look as he rubs his slapped cheek. He doesn't look upset by my action. "Do you want to talk?"
Sigh... I just nod and walk away from Feita to my home.
On second thought, I feel like destroying my whole house. Elsword is just standing beside me, asking me if he could do anything to make me calm down. "I'm so upset! Why does that girl exist?!" I shout and stomp my foot. I am on the verge of losing my sanity! Even my drones fly over to Elsword and hide themselves from me.
I tell Elsword about what I feel about all this. Lastly, I tell him about the thing behind the wallpaper.
Elsword shows a disgusted face. "That's so creepy! I understand why you want to kill her instead without worrying about Add."
Hm... I wonder if I should trigger Elsword with what I found on Aisha's notes. I face him and try to look serious, despite all the anger I'm feeling right now. "Aisha has a list of slaves she summoned. Your friend's name was there. Chung."
Elsword smiles sadly. "I know about that, Eve."
Hm... he seems calm about it. Maybe it wasn't a big deal? But Aisha killed him, though.
"He got killed for feeding a stray cat. Sounds like typical Aisha, right?"
...
That's dumb.
"More reason to kill her, but those two haven't appeared on my radar for a while," I say as I look at my radar. Yeah, they're not here.
Suddenly we hear a lot of screams from the outside. I open the curtain and look out the window.
Some males are disappearing, but before they disappear, they kill their own master. Even the one that stays alive are attacking the females. It's a literal bloodbath now. The females are getting killed one by one.
Wait, what happened?!
"It's like when Chung disappeared!" Elsword shouts and looks at the scene in shock.
Slavery happened because of Lady El. If the rule is suddenly gone, that means... Lady El died? Who killed Her?!
"Don't go out. Stay here. I'll be back," I tell Elsword before he does anything stupid. He listens to me, but he doesn't seem to like my decision.
"Say that to yourself. I'm pretty sure I'll be fine!" Elsword yells at me. "Are you going to go outside and check what actually happened?!"
"I need to find Add!"
"They're not here! You said it yourself!"
That's true... Are you saying he already disappeared?! I can't meet him ever again?! My radar is still not detecting Aisha! Where did she go?!
No! I don't want him to disappear! Not after years of waiting! "We need to stop this!" I shout as I fly outside as fast as I can. Lady El's death is only an assumption. I need to know what's causing this!
Elsword doesn't even bother to lock my door and follows me instantly. Nobody's going to rob anything anyway. I have the best security system on it.
From what I've seen, this isn't just a riot. This place is in a chaos! The usual obedient males are assaulting the females—physically and sexually—in public. Everyone is screaming in terror and pain. But, you see, the females were treating males badly. I should feel bad, but at the moment, I think they deserve it.
Now what? Where should I go? What should I check first? I don't know where to begin! Should I check on Rena and ask her several questions, including what's happening to Raven? But I don't know where she is!
Maybe these people knew something? But I only see them disappeared into thin air. My system didn't detect anything abnormal as well. It's their time to go and it's normal—according to system.
In the end, I just stand here like an idiot doing nothing at all. I'm just witnessing everything that happened so quickly in short time. Did the slavery end?
Elsword finally catches up with me. "Eve! I'm glad you're okay! I have bad news—or maybe it's good!"
I'm not okay.
"We're finding Add."
Elsword turns to silence for a moment. "Huh?"
"I want Add! If Aisha's dead, then I need to summon him myself!" I shout at Elsword. I can hear a sound of static and that's... my emotion core starting to break again. Why can't I summon a slave?! Why?! I just want an important person in my life!
"Then it's a bad news!" Elsword shouts back and stares at me. "I heard them. They can't summon slaves anymore."
Impossible.
"I just need a huge amount of power then?" I ask as I activate my cores. I'm bringing him back. I have to! I want the Add that always stays with me like the past!
People around me suddenly become quiet. They're walking away slowly, even though they were busy with their own stuffs before. Ah, I overdo it again, do I?
It's fine. I have to push it beyond my limit.
"Eve, stop it! You're breaking your emotion core again!" Elsword grabs my hand.
I slap his hand and glare at him. "I can always repair it!"
For those who didn't know, my emotion core is the thing that always holds me back. I can remove this and obtain greater power, but I don't want to for obvious reason. I've been limiting myself because of this, but this time, I need to ignore it.
"I'll summon him! I'll reunite with him and stay with him forever!" I shout again.
Elsword shakes his head. "But you'll lose it! You said it's your only treasure!"
This time, I slap him for real. "F-ck off, Elsword! Don't ever talk to me again!"
I shut myself on my room for years. I keep breaking my emotion core due to high amount of power I tried to use to make this magic circle work, but it never work. I'm so desperate, so I keep trying over and over. I completely ignore Elsword's warning, simply because I won't get anywhere if I listen to him.
I've been shutting myself for 2 years and 24 days. I haven't make anything useful to sell. I might need to sell this house soon. Now that I think about it, maybe... maybe it's time to give up.
Slavery ended and I'll never meet Add ever again. The last memory I have about him is him being cold and treat me like a stranger.
I'm nobody to him.
Should I feel sad? I'm not sure. I don't feel much right now. I remember I had a lot of good time with Add, but how good was it? How did it feel? I can't feel it anymore. How... How does it feel to love someone?
At this point, I finally realize I broke the emotion core. All the feelings I have with him, the one that I want to protect the most, is gone. Does anything matter anymore?
It doesn't, obviously. I don't even feel upset about this anymore.
I walk out of the room for the first time after 2 years. This... certain boy is still with me? He looks different than I remember. I thought he's gone after I told him to f-ck off and never talk to me again. He has so many reasons to go away.
"Eve came out!" he shouts and hugs me tightly. Why is he so happy and excited? I LEFT him.
I don't say anything and wait for him to say anything else. He breaks the hug and grabs my shoulders. "The place is still in chaos, but there's a lot of new clothes! You've been wearing that for years. It's time to buy a new one! I'll pay for it like I paid for everything you need to keep this house, you don't have to worry!"
"Why?"
Is all I can response. I don't have words for this boy.
He smiles sadly at me. "Eve, you helped me. You let me stay with you after my sister got killed. Normally I'll get punishment, you know?"
"You wanted that. I wasn't helping," I reply. Logically, doing what he didn't do isn't helping at all. I merely do what he would do if he had money to pay assassin.
"Eve, you put a mission to kill my parents so I can be free. Do you think I didn't know that?"
...How did he know?
That was a long time ago. I didn't even tell him anything about it. Maybe he got a lot of information when I isolated myself.
"I bought casual clothes, but I don't think you'll like it," Elsword says as he runs away for a few seconds and comes back with a bag of new clothes. "Maybe we could go somewhere else too! What do you say?"
...
How could I be so dumb this whole time?
I pull Elsword by his waist and hug him tightly. The person that I needed—someone that cares, loves, and considers me as "Eve" rather than a queen—is with me this whole time. We're literally living under the same roof.
I didn't need Add. I needed him—and I didn't realize that sooner.
Perhaps that's the only feeling I can keep with this broken emotion core. "I don't need any other feelings. Love is all I need," I say—and I confuse him. "Thank you, Elsword. Thank you so much."
Elsword chuckles and says it was fine. "I've made a lot of friends! Let's meet them!"
"That would be nice," I say to him, even though I don't know what would happen.
"We'll start with Rena and Raven! They're not mad at us anymore!"
That doesn't make any sense. Was Raven an alive slave? How come he's still with Rena?
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nobody reads this anymore LOL what am I doing