Reverse Transmigration: From F-rank to SSS-rank-Chapter 20: Gratitude and tears

Chapter 20

I raised a brow and turned around, not expecting her to have come so soon. The clone I assigned her to must have disappeared with the others as soon as I dissolved my magic.

"Do I look hurt?" I asked with a sarcastic smirk. She rushed over to me, her hands clutched over her chest like she was worried about me." All that blood is who’s? Where’s Dante?" She asked in a slightly trembling tone.

I looked down at my hands and body, realizing I was all covered in blood. Shit! But whatever, not like I’d deny killing Dante to Lilian. But I still won’t reveal about my new power to anyone, maybe I could even take hers too when the time is right.

"Dante’s dead. All these blood you see is his." I replied casually, and she froze in her tracks just before she got to where I stood.

"Dante is what?" She asked in disbelief. "You killed him yourself? Where’s his body?" She seemed to be struggling to believe me. Like what? Did she really think I was no match for Dante? Seemed she wasn’t yet aware of my ability to increase my strength while fighting.

"I crushed him into bits." I replied, looking coldly into her eyes, my expression dead serious. She needed to stop fucking underestimating me. I lost my powers, and so what? Even with current ten percent of my powers, I was still stronger than every student of Voldrak. There were several S-ranks besides Dante that I didn’t know of yet, but they were all between level five and six.

Her expression remained blank even after hearing what I just said. She was perfect at hiding her emotions, you could never tell what she was thinking by looking at her face. She must have picked up that skill from years of reading into others minds and realizing they weren’t who she thought they were. The surprises might have caught her off guard at the beginning, but she gradually learned to hide her emotions to prevent people from reading her the same way she could read them.

I wonder if she heard me talking about....or worse, I wonder if she was reading my mind right now. There was only one way to know.

Lilian, guess what? I didn’t just kill Dante, I absorbed him. Turns out the real Lucian had an ability no one knew about, the power to steal others ability by stabbing right into their hearts. And that power of yours, it’s something I would love for myself. What do you say? I finally helped you get your revenge, your worst nemesis is gone. Shouldn’t you reward me with that power of yours?

A smirk curved on my lips as I watched her expression, then without saying anything..I started walking towards her. I expected her to back away, to watch her expression falter from fear, or for her hands to tremble, or for her to beg, but neither of that happened. Instead, she remained standing firmly, looking wide eyed at me with an expression of what looked like gratitude instead. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

The quietly, a smile curled on her lips as tears of fucking joy began streaming down her eyes. What the hell!

"I’ll gladly give you my power if that’s what you want. You’ve fulfilled my long time wish, I can finally leave this world happy and satisfied. Thank you, Ardyn."

Her words made something in me clench, and without realizing, I stopped in my tracks. "Lilian, are you fucking insane? Don’t you have something called survival instincts?" I asked, my face twisting in a frown. I suddenly felt pissed for a reason I couldn’t even understand. I should be glad she was offering me her power willingly, so why was I upset instead? Why wasn’t I going for it? I’ve always wanted that power haven’t I? Move you idiot!

"Survival instincts?" She asked, and suddenly bursted out laughing. "All my life, I hated myself the most, including this damn ability of mine, I hate it all. I wish I never had it, at least that way I’d never be able to know people’s true feelings and intentions towards me. At least that way I wouldn’t hate myself so much for being someone so unlikeable." Her voice trembled as she spoke.

It was clear that she’d held it all in for far too long.

"The one person who didn’t find my ability as something disgusting or something repulsive was you, and my sister Leona. And I’ll be forever greatful to the both of you, for seeing me more than a prying freak." A genuine smile curled on her lips as she looked at me, her hands falling to her side in surrender.

I exhaled, losing the interest to even claim her power. I could bring myself to take the life of someone who wasn’t even ready to fight back and defend their life, there was no thrill in that.

"So Leona was her name?" I asked quietly. Was her sister also adopted like those other brothers of hers?

"Yes, although we weren’t related by blood or family, she was like a sister to me. We met here in Voldrak." She explained, and it all finally made sense to me.

"I would prefer if you don’t tell anyone about my ability. I know you’re someone who can keep secrets so I hope I can trust you." Normally, the previous me would have gotten rid of her, not wanting to take any risk of my ability being discovered. But right now I didn’t see the need to. I just knew she was someone I could trust.

The power to steal others ability was something no one else could find out I had. It was a dangerous power, something I’d never expected would fall in my hands. It felt like this was all planned out by someone or something, everything was going too well for me since I arrived here, almost like I was playing right into someone’s game.