Chapter 96: Sofya... You Traitor...

After bounding the old elder's soul, the iron chain automatically pulled the soul to the corner while the old elder's soul was trying his best to break free, but none of his efforts bore any fruit.

muffle~ muffle~

The old elder's soul was not even allowed to scream because even his mouth had been sealed by the burning red-hot iron chain, only his muffling noise rang in the room.

"____"

Sensing the hostility behind him, he noticed Vincent, who questioned him while eyeing him with a frown and wanted to confront him.

"KEEP QUIET, WEIRDO... I WILL EXPLAIN LATER."

Not taking a second glance at him, the Ghost Rider turned his attention to Inadu's spirit, which was slowly turning transparent.

"DON'T LOSE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS. LET ME EXAMINE YOU."

Ghost Rider begins examining Inadu's soul in which he finds that instead of getting stronger, it is slowly dispersing.

After examining, the Ghost Rider realized the old elder had already digested more than half of Inadu's soul.

When the Ghost Rider removed the parasitic old elder's soul from Inadu's, it destroyed the balance of her soul.

Due to the severe damage beyond repair, the soul slowly started to disperse into nothingness.

Sigh~

"It seems like I don't have any time left... I am sorry for the trouble I caused you guys... forgive me... Lord Jojo, thanks for letting me have my freedom..."

Noticing her presence slowly getting weaker and weaker with each passing second, with a genuine smile and a sigh, she apologized to the Mikaelson family for what she did to them.

Even though she had been manipulated by that old fucker, she didn't want to shrug off what she did.

"WHO SAID YOU ARE GOING TO DIE? HUH... DIDN'T I SAY IT TO YOU CLEARLY... I, GHOST RIDER, WANT TO GIVE YOU A SECOND CHANCE."

Just when Inadu was about to accept her fate of being turned into nothingness.

When a soul is severely damaged and beyond repair, it disperses and will never be able to be reborn again.

It will be forgotten forever and never enter the cycle of life again.

"____"

Hearing Inadu ask them for forgiveness very sincerely and the pain hidden behind the smile she mustered up made the Mikaelson family stunned, and they didn't know what to say.

While listening to the conversation between Jojo, who turned into Ghost Rider, and Inadu, they could vaguely guess that for some reason, Jojo was trying to save Inadu instead of killing her.

The Cullen family might not know the full horror of the hollow spirit, but they know how cruel and merciless Inadu is.

After spending so much time with Jojo, they already knew in his Ghost Rider form, that Jojo's task was to eradicate sinners and escort them to hell.

HUFF~

With a huff, which blew a little flame from his mouth, the Ghost Rider moved forward.

POOF~

With a poof, the flames all over his skeletal body started to burn intensely while his hollow eyes were glimmering at the centre of it.

When the intensity of the threshold reached a certain limit, the flames in his body slowly started to produce a blue hue.

The blue hue slowly started to spread all over his body.

When the intensity of the flame decreased, Ghost Rider was standing before them.

But this time was different because they saw Ghost Rider's skeletal body covered in blue flames instead of red flames.

"Why did his flames turn blue?"

Hope looked at the Ghost Rider, whose body now was burning with blue flames instead of the usual red, worried, and asked Rosalie, who was next to her.

"I've never seen this form... once Jenny informed me that Jojo used blue flames to heal her when she was seriously injured."

She shook her head, indicating that she didn't know about it.

Suddenly, Rosalie remembered that Jenny once mentioned to her how Jojo saved her using blue flames that covered his palm.

But this was the first time she saw Jojo's Ghost Rider form with blue flames instead of red.

"DON'T PANIC..."

With a little comfort, Ghost Rider put his hands on the transparent spirit of Inadu.

The blue flames from his hands started to spread slowly all over Inadu's spirit.

Seeing the flame rapidly spread all over her, Inadu closed her eyes.

She had already felt the heat from the iron chain earlier, and just a few minutes before,

she had seen how the old elder's soul was trembling wildly due to the burning pain he was receiving from the flames in the iron chain.

"____"

But she didn't feel any pain. Instead, she felt comfortable, and warm, like she was being embraced by her mom when she was a kid.

She was very confused. She had just seen how fast the blue flames covered all over her body; that's why she closed her eyes, expecting burning pain.

So when she opened her eyes, she saw her whole body was covered in blue flames.

Inadu's spirit, which was dispersing, stopped, and her spirit, which was getting transparent, was once again gaining visibility.

Once her spirit became visible, Inadu's presence started to get stronger.

"It's so comfortable..."

Inadu, who was lost in the feeling, blurted out what was on her mind.

HAHA~

"SHOULD BE... I AM USING MY ANGEL FORM."

With a laugh, Ghost Rider explained to her about his angel form, which is also known as Angel Rider.

After two minutes, Inadu's soul had been fully healed, and her spirit could now move freely.

She wouldn't disperse due to the instability of her previously damaged soul.

POOF~

Huff~ huff~

With a poof, Angel Rider's form dispersed, and Jojo returned to his human form while he was breathing heavily.

Before, when he helped Jenny heal her serious wound, he could just barely use the blue flame of the Angel Rider.

Which only covered his palm for a few seconds with great difficulty.

But now, he could maintain the Angel Rider form fully for a minute comfortably and another minute if he tried very hard.

"Water?"

Seeing the sweaty Jojo, who was breathing heavily like he had just completed a marathon,

Freya took her bottle, which had previously fallen to the ground because of Inadu's scream, and gave it to him.

"Thanks... it's tiring to maintain that form."

Sigh~

With a nod, Jojo took the bottle and started drinking it like his life depended on it.

"Now can you explain why you needed to save Inadu using all your efforts? And what was that earlier?"

Seeing Jojo had calmed down and his breath had become steady, Freya asked her questions, which were on everyone's mind.

"Well..."

Hearing her question, Jojo looked around the room where everyone nodded their heads, indicating they too wanted to know.

So Jojo explained to them about Inadu's past—how she was born and how she was manipulated.

When they heard about it, they couldn't help but look at Inadu with pity.

"____"

Seeing everyone's eyes on her, for some reason, made her embarrassed.

This was the first time many people were looking at her with pity.

She had only seen anger, fear, and pleading looks directed at her, but this was the first time pity was directed at her.

They could have never imagined that the terrifying Hollow had this kind of backstory and that she was a pawn to an old geezer who wanted to achieve immortality.

"So what are you planning to do with her spirit, which you just saved?"

Nodding in understanding, Hayley asked Jojo about his plan.

She doesn't have any personal hatred towards the Hollow as long as she doesn't target her family.

And Inadu is also one of her ancestors, so if she had a good ending, she wouldn't make a fuss over it.

"I want her bones."

Not hiding anything, Jojo informed them of his plan to give Inadu her body back.

So he needed her bones, which had been safeguarded for many years to prevent Inadu from gaining her full power by four witch families.

"I won't allow it... her existence will affect the natural balance of our world. To be honest, she shouldn't exist."

Listening to Jojo's plan, Vincent couldn't help but interject in the middle of the conversation, loudly shouting at Jojo and pointing his finger at him.

"____"

Sigh~

"Somebody give this man a plaster for his mouth."

Jojo looked at Vincent with dead eyes and exclaimed, pointing at him.

Cough~

"Among the four bones, I have one, and Vincent has three ever since last time Hollow succeeded in collecting them."

Sofya, who had all this time been quietly listening to the conversation taking place before her, deliberately coughed to get his attention and informed them about the bones' locations.

"Sofya... you traitor..."

He was being betrayed by Sofya, whose family was also one of the guardians who had been guarding one of Inadu's bones for many generations.

"Then I will accompany Sofya to get them."

Volunteering, Hayley decided she would accompany Sofya to collect all four bones.

They left the Mikaelson compound, ignoring the curses from Vincent, whose mouth was later plastered with tape by Emmett, who was annoyed by him.

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