vol. 1 chapter 69 - Chapter 69 Miss Witch and Her Family
Chapter 69 Miss Witch and Her Family
That night, Angelica, Louis, and Abigail come to the nursing home while Antoinette is asleep.
The inherent magic rituals studied by Angelica and Louis will remove the magic cast by Antoinette on herself, and with Angelica's intervention and addition, it will also end the curse of Hades.
Fixation sequence one: things are fixed.
According to Angelica's theory, by inserting the magic of fixing the phenomenon when Antoinette clears her memory, Antoinette's state can be fixed, and she will no longer be in reincarnation, and there will be no more anterograde memory amnesia.
"Are you ready, Louis?"
"Um."
Louis gazed at Antoinette's sleeping face. After wasting a year, his sister still maintained the beauty of her youth. But Louis knew that if he did not do something, his sister would spend the rest of her life in a nursing home bed.
"Let's get started."
Louis said softly that Angelica gave him the choice. Maybe it was a bit cruel to decide to kill himself with his own hands, but Angelica felt that no one had more say than Louis.
The moonlight tonight is not very bright, and the sky is covered with dark clouds, as if mourning for Louis' passing.
Angelica and Louis didn't say a word. They drew a magic circle under the bed, forming the necessary steps of the ceremony. Antoinette lay quietly in the center of the magic circle. Angelica injected magic power into the magic circle, and then a translucent protective shield covered Antoinette's body.
Louis knew that this was proof that the magic circle was working, and his mental state was rapidly declining.
His soul will soon dissipate, and Abigail's soul will return to the body where she belongs, and Louis's body will also lose the immortality guaranteed by Antoinette.
"--Wait a moment!"
“?!”
Before his consciousness collapsed, Louis suddenly heard an impossible sound. Antoinette, who was supposed to be asleep, woke up unexpectedly. Louis remembered that he had confirmed with Angelica that he would not disturb Antoinette.
"She has set up a protection mechanism. If someone interferes with her magic, she will automatically restore her will."
Angelica's tone did not conceal her admiration for Antoinette's genius. The time Antoinette used to build the inherent magic to save Louis was extremely short, because if it took too long, Louis' body would become stiff and rotten, and his soul would be recovered by the god of the underworld.
The magic ritual built in such a short time even had a protection mechanism. Antoinette is indeed a genius.
According to Antoinette's idea, if someone interferes with her magic and stops her endless reincarnation, she will have a chance to rebuild a new magic after regaining consciousness and save Louis again. The memory replay time point set by Antoinette is before Louis survived, and Antoinette chose to seal the memory after Louis' death.
Now that Antoinette has her memories back, she desperately clings to Abigail's body. Because she has retained the memories that were not cleared today, Antoinette mistakenly believes that Louis' soul is still preserved in Abigail's body.
The souls of the two had already been exchanged. Louis was unable to speak. His body had already died, and only his soul retained a trace of consciousness.
Antoinette hugged the pure Abigail, both physically and spiritually, but Abigail did not choose to push Antoinette away. She did not have the habit of taking advantage of Louis regardless of the occasion like Angelica. Abigail seemed to understand Louis' thoughts.
"Thank you, sister."
Imitating Louis' tone, Abigail also hugged Antoinette.
Abigail also firmly believed that her brother Samuel, whom she did not see for the last time, felt the same way on the day when the tragedy happened at home.
"I hope you can be happy more than anyone else... because we are a family."
Samuel did so much for Abigail, even going against his out-of-control father to protect her. The reason was very simple and pure. Abigail was Samuel's sister, so Samuel hoped more than anyone else that Abigail could end her dark childhood memories.
The same reason applies to Louis. As Antoinette's brother, Louis must be the most intolerant of Antoinette sacrificing the rest of her life, even if Antoinette did it for him.
No one wants Antoinette to leave the nursing home and pursue her own life more than Louis, instead of living in the false memory that Louis is still alive. It is blood that connects this obsession... that is, family. Even if I am no longer in this world, I still hope that you can move towards a better future, not stay in the past.
Antoinette stared at Abigail in a daze. She was not a fool. From the answer Abigail gave her, she had already understood that it was Louis who broke the cycle she created.
Louis's soul dissipated.
Abigail's words were also what he wanted to say to Antoinette. Although he could not say them in person and felt regretful that he could not hug his sister for the last time, Louis undoubtedly felt relief and satisfaction in the moment before his soul dissipated.
Antoinette's shoulders shook slightly.
No one knows whether Antoinette can tell at this time that Louis' soul is no longer in Abigail's body. What Antoinette can understand is that her brother Louis has returned the future to her and the fact that Louis is truly dying.
Antoinette hugged Abigail and cried out loudly. Only then did she finally understand and accept that her last blood relative in the world had passed away suddenly.
Abigail just hugged Antoinette and accompanied her to vent her sadness. The cloudy night sky gradually cleared up, and the sunlight of the morning sun once again penetrated the ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) glass of the nursing home, shining on the face of Antoinette, who had cried until she lost all her strength and fell into a deep sleep.
"Mademoiselle Antoinette...is asleep."
Abigail sat on the bed with Antoinette resting her head on her knees.
"Sister Angelica, will Miss Antoinette's memory not have any more problems in the future?"
"I can't say for sure what will happen to Antoinette when she gets older. For now, I have used events to fix Antoinette's form. As long as she survives until midnight today, Hades' curse will no longer be effective on Antoinette."
From then on, Antoinette would have to face life without her brother Louis.
But Abigail has a new idea. Since she has also lost her last relative, can she and Antoinette try to comfort each other?