Even If I’m Reborn as a Cute Dragon Girl, I Will Still Make a Harem-Book 6: Chapter 63: Another Truth
Book 6: Chapter 63: Another Truth
*Told me? Which? Could it be… that?*
In the heavy silence, Lilith’s heart sank deeper into the abyss. That memory wasn’t buried deep. In fact, she had just dredged it up during her earlier conversation with Li Desheng.
The so-called “three-year curse” that Ciel Hesse had mentioned… The one that kept claiming her life again and again in every cycle of her reincarnation… No—more precisely…
“Soul rejection?”
Lilith’s eyes shot up in shock. She hadn’t spoken those words. They came from… Li Desheng.
He stood not far from her, staring blankly before sweeping his gaze over her again and again as if trying to see straight through her. He had even forgotten to give the attack order at this critical moment. Instead, he kept mumbling to himself in disbelief.
“How could this be? This shouldn’t be happening…”
“What soul rejection? Don’t be ridiculous.” Lilith wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and tried to compose herself. “Dinner was too spicy last night and left me with ulcers in my mouth. You’re overreacting.”
“Nonsense!”
Li Desheng gave her a look that seemed to say: *Do you really expect me to believe that a mouth ulcer caused all that bleeding? Even if someone were covered in ulcers from head to toe, they wouldn’t bleed a tenth as much as you did.*
“I told you—it’s just mouth ulcers!” Lilith said it again, louder this time.
But just as she raised her voice, her legs suddenly buckled, spasming uncontrollably beneath her. If not for Ciel catching her, she would have collapsed on the spot.
“Oops… Haha. I slept with my legs uncovered last night and caught a cold. That’s all.” Lilith let out an awkward laugh while massaging her uncooperative legs.
“No… no! You’re lying. This is soul rejection! I’ve read about it in my boss’ notes!” Li Desheng’s expression gradually twisted into one of fear. He shook his head and slowly stepped back.
“Your soul is incompatible with your body. No, I should say that your entire existence is a forced union of entirely unrelated soul and body!”
Lilith sighed, knowing there was no longer any point in hiding it. “So you figured it out. I was hoping to keep that as a lady’s little secret.”
She turned to glance at Ciel, her voice tinged with helplessness. “Well, now everyone knows.”
Then she looked back at Li Desheng, frowning. “But… do you have to react like that?”
After hearing her casual confirmation, Li Desheng began trembling violently, as if he had just witnessed something truly horrifying.
His face went pale, and his pupils darted wildly in their sockets. He looked like he was lost in thought, but the ragged breathing and cold sweat pouring down his face made it seem more like he was high on some kind of drug.
“Strange… This is all too strange.”
“What’s so strange about it?” Lilith asked, genuinely confused. “Surely you’ve seen others like me in your Great World?”
“That’s different!” Li Desheng suddenly raised his voice. “Don’t forget! According to what we assumed before, you were just a vessel—something the Dragon Queen used to hold the Dragon Eater!”
“You!”
Lilith’s eyes had darkened to pitch black by now, flickering dangerously. Even after all she had come to accept, being called a vessel still made her blood boil.
“You’re a vessel… a vessel…”
Li Desheng seemed completely oblivious to the threat in front of him. He rambled on, his voice wild and unfocused. Even his comrades began to shift uneasily, glancing at one another as they instinctively backed away from him.
“And yet—if you were truly just a vessel meant to hold something dangerous… then why would they deliberately use a different cap for the bottle?”
His gaze bore into Lilith like he was staring at a puzzle only he could see. His hands moved unconsciously, miming the act of fitting a cap onto a bottle.
“Generally speaking, isn’t the original cap the better choice? Why use mismatched parts that don’t seal properly? Wouldn’t that just make it easier for that dangerous thing inside to escape?”
“Huh?”
Lilith froze after listening to Li Desheng’s rambling that had sounded like madness. His words kind of made sense. Or rather, they dragged her back to a question she had long avoided.
*Why did Mother choose me? No. More precisely… Why did she bring a stranger named Tadashi from an unknown world to inhabit this body? Whether her goal had been to have a daughter or to create a vessel for the Dragon Eater, I was hardly the optimal choice… was I? Soul rejection. The three-year curse. An endless cycle of dying and resurrecting across time, only to die again.*
No matter how Lilith thought about it, it contradicted the queen’s supposed purpose.
*Even if it had been a random choice by a coin toss, this coin should never have landed on me.*
“Could it be…”
While Lilith was thinking, Li Desheng seemed to have already reached his own conclusion.
“No. It must be this. There’s only one possibility.” The despair in his expression had vanished, replaced by a volatile mix of fear, disbelief… and madness. “The entire Great World… has underestimated the Dragon Queen. I see now… She had this plan all along, huh?”
“What do you mean?” Lilith asked, unable to stop the anxiety from slipping into her voice.
“What do I mean? Are you really this clueless, Miss Lilith? You really don’t know anything?” Li Desheng snapped, eyes bloodshot. He stared at her like she were the culmination of some ancient grudge.
Yet even as he glared, he slowly backed away from her.
“No… maybe I shouldn’t be calling you Miss Lilith anymore…” His voice dropped to a whisper. “I should be calling you… Miss Dragon Eater…”
“What?”
Li Desheng’s words exploded in her ears like yet another thunderclap. She had already lost track of how many times that had happened today.
*Dragon Eater? Miss Dragon Eater? Me?*
“You… I… How is that possible…?”
“Nothing is impossible,” Li Desheng said darkly. “Like I told you—when all impossibilities are eliminated, what remains, however bizarre, must be the truth.”
Then, without warning, he took a deep breath—and roared. It echoed through the space, slicing through the silence with the force of an avalanche.
“Mission change! Abandon the capture of target Lilith and retreat immediately! Flee with everything you’ve got! This intelligence must be delivered to the Thoughtless Deity Lord! This is beyond us… completely beyond us!”
Before the echo of his words had even faded, Li Desheng vanished.
Lilith stood motionless, still trying to process what had just happened. With everything that had happened, her mind was beginning to short-circuit.
*What’s is going on? What’s happening? What… do I do now?*
She had so many questions in her mind, but then a voice appeared in her ears. It was steeped in murderous intent.
*[ Kill them all, Lilith. ]*
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Book 6: Chapter 63: Another Truth
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