Becoming the Villain’s Family - Chapter 280
Chapter 280
‘… Lloyd? Praying?’
It seemed like hallucinations were creeping in.
Even in her dazed state, Aria reflexively raised her trembling hands to embrace the child.
Before she could process her thoughts, she felt a powerful emotion welling up inside her.
‘I’ll protect you.’
From anything.
“I’ll give you everything.”
Whatever is precious.
Just for you, and you alone.
Luca returned to the cave.
He burned all the goods he had prepared over the past few months.
He quietly watched the cave engulf in flames and waited patiently.
The moment the child would be left alone.
‘…..Is it time now?’
He didn’t believe Aria could die.
She might look weak, but she was stronger than anyone.
And if she were to fall to hell, the humans in Valentine would have brought her back to this world.
‘The important thing is that Aria would do anything for that monster.’
Even if the monster tried to devour her, she would open her arms and embrace it.
If needed, she would willingly offer her blood, flesh, and bones.
‘At least that Noah’s descendants wouldn’t demand such from Aria.’
Realizing this, he was overwhelmed with fear.
Jealousy was a later problem for now.
‘For Aria’s safety, I have to separate her from the monster right after birth…’
Luca remembered what the nanny had told him before he came here.
Continuing to fight about life and such was just a waste of time.
He headed towards Valentine without looking back.
He couldn’t bear to see Aria in pain, no matter what it was.
‘Soul stone.’
Luca pulled out a flickering red gem from his pocket, looked at it, and then put it back.
With it, he would steal and hold the baby’s soul with no trace left.
‘Even to the point of extinction if needed.’
Luca’s expression turned cold.
With a stern face like never before, he crept into the baby’s room where he had been before.
And he drew a dagger.
He needed blood to activate the soulstone.
Luca submerged himself into the pitch-black darkness like a shadow.
Moving silently, he slowly walked towards the cradle where the baby lay.
‘Just pierce and draw blood to absorb the soul, then use a potion to heal the wound and erase the evidence…’
As he was mentally reviewing his plan, he had to abruptly stop.
The baby had eyes that were light pink like Aria’s. And she was looking at him.
In that moment, Luca felt his heart drop with a thud.
“Ugh!”
Luca groaned, clutching his heart.
The dagger he held clanged to the ground.
But he couldn’t think of picking it up.
Because of those eyes.
It wasn’t just because they were the same color as Aria’s.
The moment his gaze met those wide, innocent eyes, words from his memories echoed endlessly in his mind.
Protect and stay by Shardra’s side. You are the only one. You are the only hope. Only you can protect Shadra. Only you can protect God. Retrieve the feelings stolen from the humans by Shardra’s side.
“Please.”
Since meeting Aria, the strong brainwashing from his mother dragon had resurfaced.
‘Noisy. Just shut up!’
He closed his eyes tightly and staggered.
With each echo of the voice, a piercing pain accompanied his heartbeat like they were being stabbed by an awl.
As if recognizing Luca’s murderous intent towards the baby.
Was it really a curse, or were the words of his mother dragon etched in his heart like a knife carving and he couldn’t get rid of them?
He thought they had disappeared.
But they hadn’t disappeared; they were just waiting.
Waiting for the birth of this baby…
‘Shadra’s feelings.’
Yes.
Valentine’s bloodline, Noah’s descendants, inherited God’s malice through generations.
On reaching adulthood, they fully embraced the feelings passed down.
And this child of Aria and Lloyd, bore both God’s good and evil feelings.
‘When this child reaches adulthood, she will fully receive God’s complete feelings.’
The child was a vessel for both the goodwill and malice of Shadra.
Luca had to protect the baby.
Until she grew up safely and reached adulthood.
And until the grown child returned all of God’s feelings.
‘I must live to stay by God’s side. I must regain and protect the stolen feelings.’
Ah, damn it.
Lost in thought, Luca desperately tried to steady his trembling hands as he approached the child.
A heart-wrenching pain began, but he gritted his teeth. Sweat was dripping but he reached out his hand.
‘If I don’t kill this child now, I’ll be dragged around like a dog on a leash until she becomes an adult.’
A strong intuition hit him.
And after returning God’s feelings, after being finally freed from the leash the child held…
‘I must protect God for life once Shadra awakens with all the feelings.’
If things continued, a duty akin to a curse would begin.
If he couldn’t use the dagger, he had to strangle the child.
Luca didn’t want to lose the freedom he so desperately craved.
It was his instinct to protect himself.
“Owaa…”
He had intended to do so until the baby’s face contorted as if about to cry.
Luca stopped his hand that was reaching towards the baby’s neck, and froze stiff.
Like a fool who had forgotten what he was about to do.
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