The Possessed Evil Woman Wreaks Havoc - Chapter 131

At my question, Kayden frowned slightly and said, “I do not understand what you are saying, Saintess. More importantly, the princess was just here… do you happen to know where she went?”

His attempt to brush off my words as if they were trivial ignited a fire within me.

Calm down, Bella. You’re a rational and composed demon… like hell you are.

Damn it.

As rage surged through me, my hand instinctively reached to grab Kayden by the collar, but I barely held myself back.

The man in front of me truly looked as though he knew nothing.

It was not impossible that Kayden’s memory was incomplete.

To say he had been pretending not to know me all this time, his attitude toward me had been far too indifferent.

Considering all the… things between us, unless he was a trained actor, it would be impossible to act like that.

So the likelihood of an incomplete memory was greater.

“Do you really not know anything? Or are you just pretending not to know?” I asked, suppressing the emotions rising inside me.

If Kayden did have his memories and was pretending not to know me…

I might really have to kill him.

How dare he pretend not to know me? After hurting me like that?

Fury boiled up.

Even though I was in Isabella’s body, I suddenly remembered the wound inflicted by Zachary in the past, and my heart throbbed.

When I snapped at him, Kayden answered with an even stiffer expression than usual.

“…Since earlier, I truly don’t understand what you are saying.”

Zachary, saying that, did not seem to be lying.

“Good. If you had been pretending not to know… I wouldn’t even know how I’d react,” I muttered, almost to myself. But instead of calming down, my anger only flared further.

“Come to think of it, this is infuriating in its own way. You dare forget me? You dare?” I shouted.

All those long years I suffered because of Zachary… Then I deliberately stopped my thoughts.

If I let them continue, I might end up thinking things I didn’t want to admit.

I slowly regulated my breathing.

What should I do in this situation?

Before I could organize my thoughts, my mouth started moving on its own.

“I thought you had betrayed me.”

“I’m not sure what you mean by that…”

Kayden had a look that said he didn’t understand my words at all.

And neither did I. This situation was still hard to believe, something I had never imagined.

“Why are you alive? No, how are you alive?” I asked Kayden.

Lilith had said nothing was impossible in this world, but I had never heard of a human soul being reborn.

So for Zachary to appear before me like this, and in a new body no less, was definitely an abnormal situation.

Emotions began to riot within me. The fact that a contractor I thought was dead was alive brought me no pure joy.

‘Honestly, I don’t even know what I’m feeling. I can’t tell if being happy is the right response.’

The most fitting name for this emotion I felt was confusion. Confusion from learning that Zachary was alive.

Knowing Zachary was alive wasn’t something I could simply rejoice over.

I knew too much. About the side effects that arise when an ordinary human gets involved in abnormal situations.

And most of those side effects are borne only by humans.

For example, when a human meets a demon, it is usually the human who gets hurt. That’s why I couldn’t contain my anger now.

Kayden frowned slightly and said, “…It sounds as if you are saying I should have died.”

“If you made that choice… then at the very least, you shouldn’t be standing here alive before my eyes.”

Zachary, who chose death a year after betraying me.

If he had betrayed me just to avoid losing his soul, then he shouldn’t have chosen that kind of death a year later.

If only he had lived a long life. If he had enjoyed all the wealth and glory of the Middle Realm and died an old man.

If that had happened, I might have dismissed his choice as human greed and hated him with ease.

But of all things, he died. Died like that.

Now, everything seemed suspicious.

Why was Zachary reincarnated now?

Of all times, when I was trapped in a human body. If I had been in the Demon Realm like usual, I might not have noticed Zachary’s reincarnation.

It was too much of a coincidence.

…Wait a minute.

I slowly tried to organize my thoughts… or not!

I wasn’t exactly the rational type to begin with, and in this situation, calmly sorting out my thoughts was clearly impossible.

“Gabriel. When did you meet Gabriel?” I snapped at Kayden.

Lilith had said that power was the force that makes the impossible possible.

And the reason Zachary was able to be reborn as a different person was also due to power.

Gabriel’s power is the power of judgment.

“A bothersome power. But we don’t need to worry. No matter how much he’s the leader of the angels, he can’t judge a fellow wielder of power.”

That was what Amon had said in the past when I asked him about Gabriel’s power.

In truth, I didn’t know much about his power.

Well, it was the same for the other Lords’ powers as well.

They all kept what their powers could do hidden to some degree.

Since I rarely encountered Gabriel, I had never seen him use that power even once. The only information I could rely on now was what I had heard from others.

What I knew was that Gabriel’s power could influence the souls of others, and that the lower the soul’s rank compared to his, the greater the effect of that power.

And judgment.

He could deliver judgment based on the sins that soul had committed. But I didn’t know exactly what that judgment entailed.

‘Gabriel used his power on Zachary’s soul.’

What grudge did Gabriel have against me to do something like this to you?

I could understand that he disliked me since I symbolized the death of his lover… but I could not understand him doing something like this.

Didn’t angels generally follow the will of the Celestial God?

Because the Celestial God cherished humans, the angels, as his creations, followed his will.

Even after the Celestial God disappeared, that did not change. Since angels tried to deny the disappearance of the Celestial God, they followed his will even more, as if he were still by their side.

That’s why they shared divine power with humans, and even tolerated silly things like prayer gatherings.

Gabriel… that bastard is worse than a beast.

Kayden slowly answered my question. “You couldn’t be referring to the young duke… Are you, by any chance, speaking of Archangel Gabriel?”

“Yes. When did you meet that bastard?”

“I have never met Lord Gabriel.”

“Liar. You met him.”

“I’m merely a human. It’s not easy for someone like me to meet an archangel. Of course, there’s an opportunity to see one at the New Year’s prayer gathering, but I’ve been away from the capital during those times.”

Anyone else might have accepted Kayden’s detailed explanation.

But it didn’t work on me, who knew his true identity.

“You met Gabriel. You just don’t remember.”

“…You say something similar to what the princess said.”

I flinched at Kayden’s words. They had been talking earlier. As I approached, I heard Zachary’s name and couldn’t catch what they had been discussing.

I asked Kayden, “What were you two talking about?”

“The princess said that I would realize it eventually. That it was always so in every life.”

Every life?

The moment those words brushed my ears, an ominous thought occurred to me.

What if… this wasn’t his first reincarnation?

Kayden had said that he once fought in a war against heretics. But according to Sher’s information, the last war with heretics was a hundred years ago.

At first, I thought Kayden was just insane… but now, a new possibility opened up.

The soul, as time passes and endures more trials, rises in rank. Kayden’s soul was of such a high rank that it was hard to believe it was human.

Like the soul of someone who had lived for a long, long time.

Had my contractor been reborn over and over again, without me knowing?

As that thought took hold in my mind, I suddenly felt so dizzy that I couldn’t see straight.

How dare.

Who dared do such a thing to my contractor?