She Belongs To The Devil

"Have me back?" Adeline looked down at the cold fountain water again.

Then suddenly, she recalled being stabbed in the chest  by Reginald and guessed why she was there.

Arion also came and rubbed his head on Adeline's face. And he said in a loving voice,  "Adeline… I hate you so much! Do you even know what you made us go through?"

"Wait!" Adeline pulled away from the hug and asked the two of them, "What happened to me? Did I… Did I d–" Adeline saw that both of them were crying. And not just crying, their eyes were red and swollen as though they had been crying for hours.

And Adeline heard a voice coming from the side, "Adeline, there's something important that you need to do first."

Adeline felt goosebumps all over her body upon hearing that familiar voice. If she had heard it some other time, then she would have been very excited.

But hearing it after getting stabbed and waking up after God knows how many hours, she didn't even want to turn her head and see what was happening on her side.

"Adeline, I need you to save Theodore," Adeline heard the Goddess' voice again. "Can you do that for me?"

Adeline felt a shrilling pain in her heart upon hearing that. "S-S-Save Theodore?" she stuttered, still denying to turn her head.

However, from the corner of her eyes, she could now see that someone was hovering in the air and was definitely not doing so well.

And she feared that Theodore had done something really bad after she got stabbed.

"Did I die?" she looked at Arion and asked for an answer. "Did Theodore do something to save me?"

Without her realizing it, she was already breathing and sweating heavily. Her head was already spinning because her mind was trying to fill in the gaps of information by weaving thousands of possibilities that could have happened during the time she was unconscious.

Arion looked into her eyes and tried to make her hurry, "Adeline, for now, all you need to know is that Azriel saved your life by giving up his own."

"Azriel… he did what?" Adeline turned her head to find some old man with the Goddess instead of Azriel. Before she could even think who that grandfather was, she heard Arion again.

Arion blurted out everything without any filter, "Don't worry, Azriel will be fine. Mother won't let him die but Theodore doesn't know about it. He thinks that Azriel is going to die. And he lost it. He has gone on a killing spree. He has probably already killed half of Mihir's armies by now."

"What?" Adeline shouted. She looked back at Arion with disbelief in her eyes.

The Goddess spoke again to make Adeline understand what was at stake there, "Adeline, we don't have time for chit-chat. My husband came down to Earth before me."

Adeline covered her mouth with both of her palms. She was in for one shock after another and she had no idea how she was still able to stand. She should have fainted a while ago.

The Goddess continued to speak, "And I don't know what he will do to Theodore. You know how he is. So please…"

"What do I have to do?" Adeline put aside her shock and fear and asked with a determined look on her face. She was not going to let anything happen to her husband.

The Goddess looked into Adeline's star-like eyes and asked with a serious look on her face, "Stop those two from murdering each other."

Adeline felt a chill shiver run down her spine. And she thought to herself, "The father and son are after each other's lives? And if they really are then how the hell am I supposed to stop the celestials from killing each other?"

And as if the Goddess read Adeline's mind, she hinted to Adeline, "Make a wise use of your wish."

Adeline's eyes twinkled. "Yes! I still haven't used that wish!"

The Goddess nodded her head and said, "Make sure you use it."

Adeline gave a confident nod to her mother-in-law. She then glanced at Arion and asked, "Arion, take me to Theodore."

But the Goddess interrupted her and instructed her, "Adeline, try teleporting."

"Teleport?" Adeline raised her brows and then looked at her ring and asked, "You mean, I call Theodore here?"

The Goddess shook her head. "No, trust me, you don't want them here. So you try teleporting there instead. I know you can."

The Goddess then gave further instruction, half unsure if Adeline would be able to do it on her first try, that also based on mere verbal instruction. But she instructed anyway.

"Close your eyes and visualize Theodore. Express to your body that you want to be by his side. And try not to resist that unusual sensation running through your body after that."

The Goddess wanted to trust that Azriel's soul-memory was also transferred to Adeline. And she encouraged the baffled daughter-in-law, "Go on. Give it a try."

Adeline took a deep breath in. She glanced at the golden aura that she was emitting instead of old Azriel. She thought that the Goddess' instruction had something to do with that change.

So she closed her eyes and did as she was instructed. She felt some buzzing sensation and when it stopped, she opened her eyes.

"Oh!" Adeline was still right where she was.

She closed her eyes again and tried teleporting several times. But she was unsuccessful every single time.

"It's not working!' Adeline now began to panic and lose confidence in herself. She even wondered if taking Arion would have been faster than trying to do something which she had never done before.

The Goddess was still transferring her life force to Azriel so she couldn't leave his hand yet. She thought of producing a mirage to take Adeline to the battlefield. But that would disrupt the transfer and she didn't want to mistakenly kill Azriel.

So she tried to give a rather twisted motivation to Adeline. She looked at her and said in a bit rude and stern voice, "Adeline, you are an immortal now. You don't want to spend the rest of your eternity without Theodore by your side, do you? If you don't go now then your husband will die!"

Adeline was stunned. She felt as though she had been stabbed by her Cerberus Sword not once but tens of times. Tears started to roll down her eyes like never before. The thought of having to live on without her husband was worse than death itself.

"No!"

Adeline closed her eyes and in the very next second, she disappeared from the cave.

The Goddess let out a deep sigh of relief. She closed her eyes and whispered to herself, "I'm sorry I said that, Adeline. But at least it worked."