Chapter 32- Amazing

Chapter 32- Amazing

Kai's hand rested on Selina's body before he channeled his Origin slowly. Closing his eyes, Kai slowly maneuvered it and then moved it to the palm of his hand before letting it enter Selina's body.

"Ah~" A painful moan escaped Selina's mouth as she closed her eyes.

Kai's Origin covered her whole body as it started melting the dark spots covering her skin. The effect was visible to the naked eye. The more the black spots melted, the more Selina's moans rose in the air.

Even with her painful condition, her sweet voice was still extremely attractive to the ear. It was like a sweet nectar of the gods.

But, Kai didn't care about that as his whole focus was on the runes written on her body. Using his power, he was slowly nullifying their effect as he erased them. It wasn't a hard process but it still required Kai to focus a little bit.

'These words…' As he was erasing them, Kai read the words carefully. As he predicted, they were indeed a curse. Precisely, a curse that consumes one's Origin power and along with it, their life span.

'Even if I erase them fully, she will still die in a few days at most. I need to reverse the effect and restore her lifespan.' He thought.

Restoring someone's lifespan was something this world had never heard of. Well, most people never heard of it as it sounded absurd. But, it was possible theoretically. The Origin power is extremely versatile and could almost do everything as long as it's possible. However, because no human is able to reach the level required to perform miracles, it all stayed in books, being theorized but never applied. Restoring lifespans was one of those powers.

A few minutes passed until eventually, the last rune was erased as Kai's aura erupted, he moved to the next phase of the healing process.

"This is going to hurt, Madame Selina." He said.

"Ah~ Ah~ I don't mind pain. But, I'm already feeling as if the shackles that restrained my body were already starting to vanish. It's working!!" She replied in between her groans.

Kai nodded his head calmly as he injected Selina's body with even more Origin power. Her eyes widened slightly.

'H-How is his Origin this… strong?' She thought to herself with pure shock.

In her life, she never felt such a pure, rich Origin. It was incomparable to anything else. Akin to comparing heavenly dew to muddy water.

As the moments passed, Selina's body was regaining its energy. Her weak muscles were reviving and her hazy mind was waking up from its slumber.

The intense pain she felt at first also started vanishing and was being replaced by a heavenly sensation as if Selina was flying in the clouds. It was the most comfortable she ever felt.

Eventually, Kai pulled his hand away and his Origin power melted quickly and merged with Selina's body. The amazing feeling also vanished which made the woman open her eyes slightly with a dazed expression. The lingering blissfulness still clouded her mind.

"It's over. Congratulations on your recovery." Kai said in a bland tone as he turned around to walk toward the door.

"H-Huh? That's it?" Selina asked as she blinked a few times before her eyes moved to look at her body.

That's when she noticed it. The black spots, the runes, the feeling of her energy and soul being drained, they were all gone as if they were never there in the first place.

Immediately, tears filled her eyes while she was still frozen in her place.

"H-Huh… W-Why am I crying?" She murmured as she tried to wipe her eyes. However, the moment she started wiping them, the dam broke and she fell into quiet sobbing as she held her face.

The emotions she felt at that moment were too intense to be covered. The years of pain and suffering while seeing her family doing everything they could to heal her. The tears her daughters shed as they hugged her, they all tore her heart to pieces.

At some point, she simply accepted that her life was over and that she had to spend whatever was left cherishing every moment with her husband and daughters. They were her most precious treasure that she only grew more fond of them as she realized that death was getting closer and closer.

Life for her became meaningless except for the existence of those three people. It was an eye-opening experience that she weirdly didn't regret. In fact, seeing how loved she was was more than enough to make her pass away with a smile on her face. Selina knew that she had truly reached true happiness in her last moments.

Yet, out of nowhere, in mere minutes, all of that was erased as if it was never there. It was too surreal, too fantastical to be true and yet it was.

"Thank you… Thank you… Truly, thank you…"" She said as she tried to stop her tears but failed miserably.

At that moment, Kai halted his steps and looked back at her before he asked.

"Why didn't you just allow yourself to die?"

"...."

"You don't need to hide it. I know that this curse would've instantly killed you if you lost the will to live, even if for one second. Why did you never wish for death?"

Selina stared at the back of the young man for a few seconds before she smiled warmly. Her smile was as dazzling as the sun.

"My family still needed me. I couldn't leave them yet." She said.

"..." Kai's eyes flashed with a complicated glint before they returned to normal as if nothing happened.

"Is that so…" He murmured before he opened the door, only to see Markus, Eva, and Melissa stumble on their feet, almost falling on their faces.

"A-Ah… Ahahahaha!" Eva chuckled awkwardly as she stood up. "A-Are you done?"

Kai didn't answer and simply stepped aside, showing Selina to them. The moment the trio saw her, their faces froze.

They stared at the woman as if she was some kind of ghost. Although she was still looking frail and weak, her deathly aura was nowhere to be seen nor were the dark spots on her skin.

"M-Mommy…" Melissa was the first to speak as she hesitantly uttered her mother's name.

"Yes, Meli. It's me. Mommy isn't going anywhere." With tears on her face, Selina opened her arms wide, ready to accept her adorable little daughter.

"Mommy!!" Immediately, Melissa stood up and ran toward her mother and hugged her tightly as she started crying loudly.

"Mommy!! Mommy!! Mommy!!" She called her name.

"Yes, I'm here." Selina wrapped her arms around her daughter as a blissful smile appeared on her face. "Your mommy won't be going anywhere. We will always stay together."

Markus was the second to stand up as he approached his wife, his steps were slow, careful as if he feared if he moved too fast, his wife would vanish from his sight, never to appear in front of him again.

"Selina…"

"Darling…" Selina looked up at her dear husband before she extended her arm for him.

The latter gently moved forward and touched her before he quickly engulfed her and Melissa in a tight hug.

"I can't believe my eyes…" He murmured.

The only one who didn't move was Eva, however, her face was already crumbling as she teared up before her eyes moved to Kai.

Then, she stood up and ran toward him before jumping into his embrace. The overwhelming happiness she felt was indescribable to the point where she couldn't stop herself from hugging him tightly.

"I can't thank you enough, Kai!! I'm truly grateful!! I'm truly glad I met you! You are the most amazing person I've ever met!" She said as she buried her face in his neck.

Kai looked at her for a second before he tapped her back once and held her from falling as she had thrown all of her weight on him. For some reason, he didn't have the urge to push her away yet. He understood that she was engrossed in her happiness.

His mind lingered on the last few words she said. 'You are the most amazing person I've ever met.' For some reason, as simple as those words might sound, they resonated with him deeply.

'Amazing? Me?' He wondered how the word amazing linked to him in any way.

He had been called 'monster', 'freak', 'Inhuman', 'Killing Machine' and all kinds of words that didn't seem to consider him a human at all. It reached a point where he totally believed that he was indeed a monster in human skin.

The Black Phantom, a hitman who ended the lives of thousands of people with cold blood. A monster that was never defeated.

Yet, for the first time in his life, someone called him 'Amazing'. He wasn't looked at with fear and disgust, he wasn't thrown away and used for one's benefit as if he was a robot.

As his mind swirled with thoughts, he finally put Eva down gently and then turned around to leave. His job is finished here.

"Where are you going?" Eva asked as she held his arm, unwilling to let her beloved leave

"I have a matter to deal with. You stay here with your family, they need you." He replied.

Eva was about to open her mouth to protest but when she saw Kai's hypnotizing purple eyes, she went silent before a warm smile filled with affection bloomed on her face.

"I will see you again on Monday?"

Kai nodded his head and left the room after giving the happy family one last glance. For a second, the image of a person flashed in his eyes. It was that of a woman who had the same blissful smile Selina had at that moment. The two women fused together for a second before Kai turned his eyes away quickly, not wanting to see that image anymore.

The past was already something Kai hated to the bone, seeing flashes of it now was something he was unwilling to accept. After all, deep down, his unmoving heart which wouldn't budge even if the moon fell and the world ended, was at some point brimming with life.