The Antagonist: The World Ends Theory
Chapter 129 - Embedded Two Choices

"How did you sleep? Wakeless?"

Grein glanced mischievously when he saw a girl who usually made him rise in blood now sitting opposite him with a slightly changed physique, only slightly.

The girl is Clara, but now her mane is changing color to pink camellia. So similar to someone. Unfortunately, the iris of his eyes are lapis lazuli and ruby red make a figure in front of him is just like Clara Scoleths alone.

"I'm dead?"

"No. You're not dead."

"How did all this happen?"

Not answering Grein's question. Clara asked back. He was so shocked and unable to do anything but shut up and continued his sleep that resembled a dead man.

"Since the beginning he's been lying to you, really." Grein replied ambiguously.

"Huh?"

"The Meiger."

Clara's gaze changed. Being betrayed by the person he loved was the worst thing to happen to him in his seventeen years of life. This feels more stifling than he was when he became Lilia who had to work hard to meet the needs of the family.

"You know what, on your first day at the Imperial Palace and there was a book burning incident at the library? Actually the culprit is Meiger himself. He asked you to avoid your suspicion, that's all he's been lying to."

"Why did His Majesty burn the book?"

"He doesn't want to remember Lavoisier, you ever think he hates them, do you?"

Clara nodded faintly.

"Actually it was that he was only reluctant to recall his bitter memories. At first, he had no memory of it. However, all of Crater's memory he got 12 years ago."

Clara's getting quieter. Everything that happened to him after the bad rumors about him, may have been planned by Meiger himself.

Hey thiskan...

"What about the rumors about me? Do you know who spread it?" Clara asked a little worried.

"That's Jean." Grein replied a little heartily. "I didn't tell you because I knew it would bother you. He can do black magic too, you remember."

The silent atmosphere. Clara couldn't say anything more. From the beginning he was too stupid to suspect those around him. He was warned not to believe so easily.

"Miss, I'm sorry I lied to you."

"I remember she apologized to me before. Your Majesty too..."

Grein sipped his teacup. In this situation Meiger has indeed done much wrong to Clara. Although the girl was still in contact with Ivory, but her actions were still counted as wrong.

"Jean is really - really apologizing to you. But when that guy did it he just apologized for what Sieg did that brought Claire inside you."

Clara stared at the plate of cookies she had not touched. The first and last time he came here, the cake served by Grein ran out in no time.

Clara pulled the cake plate closer.

"I guess you don't have appetite."

"My appetite when I'm sad and angry will increase many times more than when I'm happy."

"Oh..."

In one flick of his finger, Grein made several other dishes with different contents. Clara was not wrong. Because some people including himself if sad will vent it on food.

"Don't eat too much. If you're fat, you can't fight."

"What's? Can I still fight?"

"of course. Just waiting for Thanatos to take your life." Grein said with laughter.

"Please stop. This conversation is starting to get out of context."

Grein who kept laughing in an old obnoxious way - long kept Clara paled as well. But he vented his frustration on Grein by devouring the cakes in a dish.

"Omong - by the way, Your Majesty once said that he hated the Scoleths. Does he have a good reason for that?"

Grein pulled one of the cake plates closer to him. Before he runs out, Grein has to move fast. There is no guarantee that Clara will not be able to swallow all of Grein's food.

"The reason is simple. The Scoleths absorbed the black magic to eliminate it. While he is the 'father' of black magic, so he is annoyed half-dead to you and Lyz."

"I thought it was Ivory who spread it."

Grein was silent for a moment.

"The bottom line is that they are both the main puppeteers of the development of black magic in this Herbras Continent. Although the main brain is still my lousy sister." Omel Grein's.

Clara was getting quiet. He's not dead yet, Grein said. There was still a bit of time, he could do something against the black magic in the Herbras Continent.

"Can you help me, Grein?"

Clara who had rarely responded made Grein quite disappointed. He is also worried about Clara's current mental health. Today was a tiring day for him, he lost a lot and is now being stabbed in the back.

Grein nodded slowly, sipping back on the camomile tea.

"You must be tired and need a lot of rest. That's why I won't be much of a base - stale."

Clara looked at Grein's so shady face. As he remembered, Lyserith was the girl who put her heart on him. Grein also replied to her in silence, without a word but in action.

Now Clara was in front of him in the form of Lyserith. Perhaps because Grein knew he was not the real Lyserith, Grein seemed to casually discuss with him. There was no restless expression due to the indirect reunion with her lover.

Grein flicked his finger again, showing his index and middle fingers. Indirectly say the number two.

"I'll give you two choices. Choose correctly because my energy is low and I can't interfere too much with humans outside of this dream world."

"Tell me. I'll choose it if it helps me!"

Grein's smile widened.

"First choice. I will help your soul return to Lilia's body, and live your life there as before. Don't worry, I'll erase all the memories you have here so that your life is happy. Because basically you're just in a coma in your world."

I'm still alive in there?! I want to see Mirye again. I've been waiting for this for a long time.

"Please listen to your second choice."

Looking at Clara who harbored her happiness upon hearing that she was still alive in her original world and was in a coma. Grein immediately interrupted the moment's delight, as Clara was still required to vote.

"You know, actually what makes Flower's Girl is me. And it's based on a true story here." Grein returned the topic.

Clara silently listened. The camellia mane makes it so similar to the figure of Lyserith that Grein longs for. The woman whose figure was still trapped in Grein's heart. Grein loved her, even after the girl ended up being a beautiful camellia that was always available in a flower vase in the dream world.

"Finally Clara was completely swallowed by black magic." Connect Grein again.

"...You didn't do anything?"

"Of course not. I was trying to kill him at the time, and I had half the success."

Clara is confused.

"A half only?"

"Yep. Only half. Because Clara Scoleths had controlled black magic completely. Meiger was not killed at the time because he was still in contact with Lavoisier. As for Rovers, I decided to kill him. To turn things around." Smiling Grein, a sigh rang out many times as he let go of the grievances of his heart.

"...! After that, what happened?" Clara asked impatiently.

At the end of the novel, the ending was completely over after Hellen's death. And in the author's note, it has been stated that there will be no extra part, alternate epilogue, let alone a sequel. It turns out that Grein had planned everything for the better end of Flower's Girl.

"Meiger is Crater's reincarnation and he's got a ruby eyeball. When I said turn things around, I really turned it around. Not just time but time."

Clara's dumbfounded. No wonder Flower's Girl earned the nickname as the novel with the most plot twist in it. It turns out that the timeline in the main story itself is time that is repeated again.

"Did you remember everything before the repetition of time?" Ask Clara full of questions.

"Yes. Unfortunately Meiger was not. I poisoned Claire's side and made it personal to kill the real Clara Scoleths. But because I know Meiger forgot all the agreements we made before the repetition, as well as Crater's grudge that dominated in him. Then my choice is to bring your soul into the body of Clara Scoleths."

"Because that's why the ending hangs."

Grein smiled softly at Clara's hard-thinking expression. His right hand moved to reach the top of the girl's head. Gently Grein rubbed it, although eventually Clara's hair remained messy.

"I gave you the first choice as my apology for arbitrarily pulling your soul forcefully here. I just don't want that tragic ending to keep repeating as my life cycle, it's so torturous."

"I still want to hear the second choice."

Grein nodded. In fact, in the second option there was no benefit at all for Clara. He is the one who lost big. But, at least he had to hear that second choice.

Grein's gentle smile had disappeared. There's only a thin line curved there. His gaze turned soft, like dusk beginning to close the day.

"Disappear with black magic."

TB

You must be aware of Grein's words in Chapter 1. Clue is the first in the course of this novel.

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