Stop Hypnotizing Me, Antagonist Princess!

Chapter 302: Chapter 200 A Tragedy Destined to Happen
 

As the Witch Miss’s cool words slowly fell, Lynn stood there stunned.

Dead?

He subconsciously raised his head to look at the tranquil girl within the light cocoon.

Even now, her face still carried a trace of a gentle smile as if she were in the midst of a beautiful dream from which she would never wake.

An extreme sense of unreality suddenly rose in his heart.

Just a few minutes ago, the girl had awoken next to him on the same bed, speaking with him from a short distance away.

Moreover, by logic, this light cocoon shouldn’t have appeared in the Pantheon at all.

The only explanation was that his recent series of actions disrupting Tiya’s destiny had led to significant changes in the future.

But as the original main female lead, with the world’s will to protect her, could she really die so easily?

Lynn was skeptical.

So he took a deep breath, suppressed a certain emotion that was faintly surfacing in his heart, and said, “Can you tell me how she died?”

The Witch Miss looked at him calmly, “Are you very curious about her?”

A loaded question.

Tiya was a woman, and quite a beautiful one at that.

And no matter what, Witch Miss and Ivyst were ultimately the same person; essentially, not much had changed.

If one were to overlook her inherent intense possessiveness, akin to Ivyst’s, because of her cool and noble appearance, it would be purely seeking death.

If he gave the answer “yes,” Tiya’s body would likely be crushed to dust by her.

Actually, for Lynn, there should be no hesitation in this question at all.

After all, from beginning to end, his relationship with Tiya had been one of user and used.

However, at this moment, this inexplicable feeling of oppression in his heart was not false.

Perhaps, when he thought he had exploited her guilt to achieve his goal, he was, unnoticed, influenced by similar emotions.

At the end of the day, if it were not for his existence, Tiya should have followed the original world’s trajectory, becoming Xiya’s lover and living carefree for the rest of her life—assuming one could consider her and the second-generation Bright Moon Goddess as the same person.

But now, not only was her future self imprisoned in the Pantheon, but she had also silently died for reasons unknown.

This was not an ending befitting a main female character.

Lynn shook his head, “‘Curious’ is not quite accurate, I am just a bit puzzled as to why the future Bright Moon Goddess would die so arbitrarily, and whether there might be some deceit involved.”

He was lying.

As a woman, her sixth sense let her see through Lynn’s words at a glance—they were not genuine.

However, Witch Miss only looked at him deeply and ultimately chose not to expose him, “The future Bright Moon Goddess… this term is not precise.”

“She, Tiya Yohusti, is strictly speaking, only a part of the Bright Moon Goddess.”@@novelbin@@

“An error born in a vessel, one that should not have existed.”

Lynn nodded.

Although the original work described it very clearly, in his view, the so-called merger was more akin to Devouring and usurpation.

After the Moonlight Holy Scripture, the original Tiya vanished forever, replaced by an impostor named Beatrice.

But because of her noble goddess persona, plus the fact that Tiya’s own body did not change, this minor spiritual flaw was ignored by the readers.

Seeing that Lynn understood her meaning, Witch Miss continued in a soft voice, “According to the original course of events, Tiya’s spirit was too weak at that time; thus, she was effortlessly Annihilated by Beatrice, assimilated as part of her.”

“However, because of various actions you took in the past to disturb fate, her future changed as well.”

“What changed?”

Lynn asked subconsciously.

Witch Miss replied indifferently, “For unknown reasons, Tiya Yohusti was not assimilated or Devoured by the Bright Moon Goddess during that Moonlight Holy Scripture.”

“She seems to have awakened a strong resistance, and even Beatrice was helpless against her, so much so that for many years in the future, she was playing a role akin to a second personality, greatly affecting the goddess.”

“The most significant of these impacts is that… she, who was supposed to become Hero Xiya’s companion, did not develop an intimate relationship with him according to the original world line’s trajectory.”

How… could this be possible?

If this world were a book, and every character within it had inescapable fates,

then Tiya’s destiny was to become a member of Hero Xiya’s harem.

This was her greatest value and reason for existence as a female character in the book.

Yet, even though Lynn had been trying to change her destiny, she could always sense the world will’s invisible hand constantly correcting the impact she had made.

Even if it couldn’t be smoothed out now, there was always a chance to do so in the next hundred thousand years.

After all, Lynn existed only in the present, not in the future.

But Tiya refused it all.

She gave up her duty as the heroine, which was essentially a rebellion against the world will.

From ancient times to the present, no being that defied the will of this world ever had a good ending.

No wonder the world will no longer favored her.

Noticing Lynn’s silence, the Witch Miss continued with what sounded like very cruel words, “Because Beatrice had coexisted within the same vessel with her for too long, their two consciousnesses started to merge for real, which made Beatrice feel an unprecedented panic.”

“In the end, she sought help from the future Xiya and extracted herself from this body.”

“Perhaps out of spite, Beatrice didn’t let her off easily, but personally tormented her for tens of thousands of years, until the consciousness of Tiya Yohusti had completely dissipated, before sealing her within the Pantheon.”

This was the most pitiful depiction of Tiya’s long but brief life.

From start to finish, she seemed unable to escape the fate of being an “error,” manipulated by Beatrice and eventually ending in tragedy.

But to her, was all this really a tragedy?

Looking at the slight smile at the corner of the girl’s mouth within the light cocoon, Lynn suddenly doubted.

Perhaps, with her personality, she had never truly hated anyone until the end.

“Let’s not talk about these irrelevant matters anymore,” said Witch Miss with a wave of her hand, stowing away the light cocoon, “It seems you’ve filled all the slots for the Second Rank Divine-given factors. Take this opportunity, and I’ll strengthen them for you.”

“Also, hurry up and complete the final step of the Ascension Trial. Once you ascend to the Third Rank, I will bestow upon you a new ability, as compensation for your inadequacy in combat.”

As she spoke, a strong red glow suddenly burst forth from her body.

Lynn seemed a bit stunned, “The final step?”

Hearing this, a cold glint flashed in Witch Miss’s eyes, and she stopped what she was doing with an unpleasant expression, “You haven’t forgotten the task I initially set for you, have you?”

“…I haven’t forgotten.”

Lynn came back to his senses and shook his head.

The initial mission was to get Tiya to open up to him in the shortest time possible, then use the Fallen Hour to turn her into a puppet.

At that time, Beatrice, who would descend upon this vessel, would also be affected by the filth curse and become a slave who would obey his commands.

Such a huge deviation from the plot was enough to shatter the Order Chains in the hands of Witch Miss.

Most importantly, this act satisfied her desire for revenge against Xiya and the others.

It was all planned from the beginning.

Only the command of Witch Miss was something he could not refuse.

Sensing the emotional suppression of his follower at the moment, surprisingly, Witch Miss did not show Ivyst’s unreasonable side.

Although she was somewhat angry inside, she was very calm on the surface, “Actually, whether you do it or not, the outcome will not change.”

“Because…it is a tragedy that is destined by fate.”

A tragedy destined by fate?

Thinking about it carefully, it seemed to be true.

If he were to return to reality and do nothing, it would lead to the first bad ending, which is the tragedy of being tormented for tens of thousands of years after Beatrice has stripped away her consciousness.

And if the Fallen Hour was used, in the second bad ending, Tiya would become a walking corpse, a tragic victim in the struggle between the two goddesses, with no one to care.

Perhaps her fate was sealed from the moment the two met.

But upon closer thought, it seemed not entirely accurate.

Even if they had never contacted each other from the beginning, according to the original plot, Tiya would still be annihilated by Beatrice, according to the Moonlight Holy Scripture.

In other words, there was no option that could lead her to a perfect ending.

Lynn took a deep breath and clenched his fist subconsciously.

“I understand.”

(ps: There will be another update tomorrow noon.)