Chapter 196: It's Definitely Not Just to Sleep With Me!

Isabella gently placed her hand on Gabriella’s lower abdomen.

Gabriella let out a soft “Mmm.”

The large amount of magic power being drawn from her—even the shadows being absorbed as nutrients—left Gabriella’s body completely drained.

If the environment of her magic circuits deteriorated at this moment, the damage would feed back into her physical body.

Gabriella’s soul was attempting to fuse the two bodies together.

This was currently the greatest crisis.

What kind of world-shaking power would result if the demon body and the special holy form that only Gabriella possessed were to fully merge?

But there was no denying that the direct cause of all this was her pregnancy.

Isabella suddenly recalled Creis’s plan.

She had always treated Gabriella as a tool, yet never abandoned her.

Perhaps this could even evolve the holy form.

Before long, Gabriella could only lie weakly on the bed, whimpering softly.

She slightly lifted her head and looked at Isabella with dazed eyes.

Her breathing between her cherry lips was heavy and rapid.

However, the magic power transfer had already ended.

Isabella used shadows to clean away all traces that might give off a sweet scent and wiped off the wet marks on Gabriella’s face and legs.

She lay down beside Gabriella, propping her shoulder against the headboard and pulling Gabriella into her embrace.

Gabriella was now in a near-semiconscious state.

Gabriella’s mouth was murmuring something—very soft, blurry, yet fragile.

Sob… sob… sob…

Her body was incredibly soft.

Once the magic power inside her stabilized, drowsiness came flooding in.

The shame she had been holding back deep in her heart completely transformed into grievance, flowing out as tears.

She felt that this idiot Isabella was really too much.

She looked at Isabella with aggrieved eyes.

Of course she knew this was to harmonize her magic power, but it definitely didn’t have to include that!

There were clearly gentler methods, but Isabella had chosen the one with the most “fluids”!!

What if Celestial God Creis discovered them? Yet her body was responding with eager desire.

In front of Isabella’s caresses, she acted like a demon starved for affection, but she couldn’t think of any way to blame Miss Isabella.

Gabriella didn’t know what to say. She simply stared at the other party with resentful eyes.

“Isa, have you remembered it, Silver-White Sword Empress?…”

What exactly does she want me to recall? Could it be that we also did that in the past?

Gabriella thought about it and realized it was entirely possible.

After all, they had kissed each other less than a year after meeting.

If those feelings continued to develop, they might have been even deeper than now.

Thinking of this, the resentment in Gabriella’s eyes grew stronger.

She placed one hand on her lower abdomen where the child was, while her other hand had already been pulled into Isabella’s embrace.

“I… I don’t know.”

“It’s okay if you can’t remember. If you feel uncomfortable in the future, just tell me. I’ll help you.”

Gabriella fell into deep thought and gripped Isabella’s hand a little tighter.

Her pupils dilated as she stared blankly past Isabella’s shoulder.

There was nothing there—only the dining table illuminated by the moonlight and the beautiful oil painting behind it.

Her memories with Isabella had stopped at the kiss, but she had indeed recalled other things.

It was a war. A war of the Heavenly Oracle Envoys.

Magic power transformed into white wings.

The weapons in their hands seemed capable of tearing apart stars.

The girls formed complex, orderly formations in the sky, stretching out their hands, gathering power, and releasing destructive beams of light that obliterated the human cities before them.

It took her a moment to realize these were her own past memories.

When the fragment appeared, it didn’t shock Gabriella very much.

That war had not been waged against the Evil God, but rather to deal with human traitors.

Gabriella didn’t know whether that war had been just or evil, and she didn’t want to know.

Her hollow gaze looked down emotionlessly at the ruined walls and broken tiles they had caused.

【Mission】

Occasionally, a look of reluctance or guilt would appear on some Heavenly Oracle Envoys’ faces, but those expressions vanished like candle flames extinguished in a gale.

Only after that battle ended did she go to find Isabella.

At that time, her mood had been very poor.

She could still clearly feel that emotion even now, tens of thousands of years later.

It was difficult to understand such emotions.

Like how adults can sometimes recall childhood dreams and small obsessions, but they feel so distant.

Even so, Gabriella’s feelings were extremely complicated.

If her past self had truly accepted Celestial God Creis, then the current her should have long since become the “special existence” the other spoke of.

The mission of the Heavenly Oracle Envoys, the battles against the Evil God, the enlightened girl who turned her spear toward the Heavenly God, the tragic sacrifice that led to the Evil God’s resurrection—everything seemed connected by an invisible thread.

Occasionally she would grasp one end of that thread, but it would quickly slip away from her hands like a ghost.

In the end, only meaningless hatred and endless slaughter remained.

Gabriella didn’t want to dwell on the past, yet these absurd and horrifying memories made her begin to resist recalling them.

Realizing that all of this disaster was inextricably linked to her made her whole body feel as heavy as if filled with lead.

“Don’t worry, I’ll help you~”

Isabella’s caressing touch pulled Gabriella back to reality.

Gabriella’s body instinctively curled closer toward her owner.

Leaning against her shoulder, she could smell the pleasant scent on Isabella’s maid uniform.

“I’ll make you feel comfortable, just like before.”

“I’ll help you unravel your confusion and stay by your side forever.”

Isabella did not lower her voice. She didn’t seem afraid of Creis overhearing.

Gabriella nodded.

Isabella had made up her mind.

Or rather, she now knew that the girl who had revived her was Gabriella.

After spending hundreds or even thousands of years, her heart had begun to yield to this love in order to resurrect her.

She was the most pitiable little beast who deserved to be cherished.

Gabriella might hate her and recall various missions. Isabella thought that if all the conflicts of the past were simply misunderstandings, then she wanted to “conquer” Gabriella.

As the person who understood Gabriella best in the entire world, she had the confidence to succeed.

She would never let Celestial God Creis’s plan come to fruition.

“Silver-White Sword Empress, you are like a sunflower planted in my heart. Thank you~ for staying with me.”

“You mean the time at the Bottom of the Abyss, right?”

This idiot.

“Ah, of course I remember. The one who was crying back then was Isabella herself.”

Gabriella nodded and lightly bumped her horn against Isabella’s shoulder.

“I will come to accompany you every day. I will do my best to protect you.”

“Are you sure it’s not just to sleep with me?”

“It’s not.”