I Became the Tutor of the Royal Twins - Chapter 275
Chapter 275
Translator: Yonnee
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As soon as the sealing was completed, Sera collapsed onto the dry earth beneath her, body writhing weakly in a hollow defeat.
Sera.
Helios shouted her name, running desperately to reach her as quickly as possible.
Sera’s face was covered in black traces of the curse, blooming like fever blisters, signaling the demon sealed within her.
As Helios immediately knelt to pick her up, the priests surrounding them exclaimed in shock, trying to stop him.
“Your Majesty! Please allow us carry her.”
“Let go.”
“But, Your Majesty! The curse might transfer to you!”
Brushing off the hands of the unnamed priests harshly, Helios lifted Sera in his arms.
Feeling her body temperature sharply dropping, he immediately infused her with his divine power.
Sera’s body absorbed Helios’s divine power as if it had been waiting for it, but unlike before, there was no noticeable improvement.
And it wasn’t just Sera who contained a demon—Saruvia was in a similar state.
Several priests also tried to deliver divine power to her, but the situation seemed to not improve at all.
“Your Majesty, this way!”
Knowing time was of the essence, the priests guided Helios.
As Helios was about to run with Sera in his arms, the familiar cries of children stopped him.
“Heli Hyung!”
“Oppa!”
At first glance, Rosé and Ferre appeared startled, emerging out of nowhere, panting heavily as they alternated looks between him and Sera.
As Sera’s arm fell limp from Helios’s embrace, the two children’s gaze fixed on it.
Sera’s arm, exposed from the cloak, was covered in black traces.
“Hyung, is Se… Sera okay?”
“Why does Sera’s body look like that? Oppa, is that a curse?”
“Is it because of us that Sera is like this?”
Rosé and Ferre swallowed hard, struggling to breathe.
As they tried to approach Helios, Jean and Araella quickly caught them.
“Your Majesty, we will take care of the young ones.”
“Please, go ahead.”
Jean and Araella urged Helios and the priests to proceed without delay, shielding Rosé and Ferre from Sera’s shocking condition as the twins started to sob.
“Jean, what should we do about Sera?”
“Araella, where is Oppa taking Sera?”
Tears and sniffles pouring out, Rosé and Ferre trembled with fear.
They had told Sera not to come to their rescue, but seeing her collapse like this made it seem as if it was all their fault, filling the children with guilt.
Stroking the backs of the significantly weakened twins for a week, Araella responded.
“His Majesty is going to the temple.”
“The temple?”
“The temple is a place filled with the most divine power…”
“Then can’t me and Ferre go to the temple too? We wanna be with Sera!”
Although Araella understood Rosé and Ferre’s feelings, she shook her head with a pained expression.
There was a message from Helios to take Rosé and Ferre back to the palace.
“Lady Sera is very ill, so it will be difficult to see her for a while. Soon… she’ll get better, so His Majesty said that Your Highnesses must wait at the palace.”
“What about Oppa?”
“What about Hyung?”
Worried about Sera and longing to see Helios they had just reunited with, Rosé and Ferre nodded, sensing the gravity of the situation and understanding that it wasn’t the time to act out.
Rosé and Ferre clung to Jean and Araella, squinting their eyes shut as hot tears streamed down, and silently prayed.
Please let Sera be safe.
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Inside the temple, despite being filled with brilliant golden divine power, an air of grimness pervaded.
The amount of divine power transferred to Sera was significant, yet her condition remained dire.
Her lips turned a bluish shade, her skin pale without a hint of life.
Like pouring water into a bottomless bucket, no matter how much divine power was infused, there was no change in Sera’s condition.
Helios rubbed his face roughly with his dry hands, devastated by Sera’s pitiable condition.
With a weary body, he brushed his heavy face, breaking the silence with a voice that didn’t seem his own.
“Why is there no improvement after such a long time?”
The priests infusing Sera with divine power flinched and bowed their heads deeply.
As they hesitated to speak the truth, Helios’s gaze turned to Roward.
“Your Majesty, it’s no different from a typical curse. It’s inevitable that it takes some time.”
“But it didn’t take this long last time.”
“That was only a part, but now, having fully contained the demon inside her… It’s best for Your Majesty to calm down and wait…”
“Wait?”
Helios laughed hollowly, as if incredulous.
It was a reminder of his helplessness and frustration, that there was nothing he could do.
Suffocating guilt and endless self-loathing washed over him, and he laughed bitterly.
Hadn’t he promised to protect her?
It was all his fault—for involving Sera, for making her sacrifice herself.
If Sera hadn’t met him, she…
She should have stayed bright, kind, and smiling.
The fact that she lay there, cold and unmoving, was… something he didn’t want to believe.
He overlaid the image of Sera, in pain when she first absorbed Belzebuth, with her current state.
The memory of her eyes widening in terror without even a scream was vivid.
What about now, having fully absorbed Belzebuth?
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