Chapter 545 - Lumi's Past (3)
"We actually had a chance to save Madam Karma's life. However, it would have meant killing her daughter. Madam Karma knew this. That's why even when she was in so much pain, she still wanted to let her daughter see the world!"
"You're lying!" Yahir Gallagher paled.
"...Yet after all the pain she suffered, the sacrifice she made, you, the father of the child, did not protect her but detested her, hated her, abused her, and even wanted to kill her!" The middle-aged female servant spoke emotionally.
"Why are you only telling me this now?" Yahir Gallagher staggered slightly, feeling lethargic and pale as sheets.
"Everyone knew how much you loved Madam Karma. When we saw you deeply detested Miss Lumi for being born, we knew that you needed the anger to cope with your grief. Otherwise, you would not have been able to bear with the loss..."
"...However, it's been many years already! Even if Miss Lumi was born a demon, she was born a good demon! If you kill your only daughter, you will have no one left! Do you think your wife would have been happy to see you treat her daughter like this?! It's time to stop, master!"
Once the middle-aged female servant finished speaking, Yahir Gallagher froze like a wooden block with a lost expression.
Seeing that her words have finally gotten through to the master, the middle-aged female servant bowed before silently taking her leave, giving her master some time alone.
The day quickly grew dark, with grey clouds gathering in the skies before the rain fell.
Even so, Yahir Gallagher remained unmoving from his spot. His body was slowly soaked while raindrops fell on his face.
"What have I been doing...?" Yahir Gallagher finally uttered after some time. With his head raised, the raindrops battered against his face in quiet contemplation.
No one could see his tears hidden in the rain.
After some time, Yahir Gallagher softly muttered, "I have done my daughter so much wrong... I have to make it up to her."
However, that chance never came.
That same night, Lumi, who had never left the confines of Gallagher's Hidden Market, was seen, bullied, humiliated, and ultimately killed by the scions of noble families living nearby.
Leon's fist clenched tightly.
He did not watch how Lumi's final moments played out. He already knew what would happen and could not bear to watch it.
Although Lumi had been filled with bruises and scars from much physical abuse, it could not hide her beauty.
When everyone found out about Lumi's gruesome death at the center of Gallagher's Hidden Market, Yahir Gallagher cried tears of blood that day.
Before he could correct his mistake and shower his daughter in the love that she had missed all those years, the world took her away from him.
Leon found it strange that Yahir Gallagher did not take revenge for his daughter but sold his properties to the enemy before quietly disappearing off the face of the earth.
Many points in Lumi's past were not revealed after her death and before she reawakened as a vengeful spirit.
Leon could only make guesses.
Even so, Yahir Gallagher's actions and disappearance were none of his concern. What grabbed his attention was Lumi's deathly aura at birth.
"This sort of deathly aura is not normal. Even unique physiques and soul constitutions required time to awaken…" Leon muttered with a frown.
As such, Lumi possessing such a deathly aura powerful enough to kill her mother and twin sister during childbirth should not have been possible.
Furthermore, he was even more puzzled by Duna's identity.
In the end, did Duna's character come from the soul of the twin sister that died in the womb during childbirth, or was she just a personality created by Lumi to cope with the torment she endured?
Thinking about the matter, the former seemed more likely to be the case. Even so, it seemed like there was more to it.
The deathly aura appearing on a baby during childbirth was just too abnormal.
After a hard ponder on the matter, Leon could only come up with one possible explanation. Although it seemed unlikely, it also appeared to be the most plausible.
"A Devil's Incarnate, huh?" Leon muttered.
Her existence, her malevolent aura, her dark powers, and her overwhelming high laws; all of them made sense if he pinned everything about Duna under the term 'Devil's Incarnate.'
"I didn't expect you to figure out this much from watching the past," A familiar voice sighed in the background.
Leon was surprised.
Immediately turning towards the direction of the source, Leon spotted Duna phasing out from a building before he asked, "How long have you been there?"
"Right from the start," Duna answered calmly.
"Right from the start, huh...? And what about Lumi? Is she also hiding somewhere nearby?" Leon queried while scrutinizing the surrounding buildings.
However, Duna shook her head with another calm response, "No, she is not here. But she is hidden somewhere in this world."
"So, even you don't know where Lumi's consciousness is hidden in this memory world, huh?" Leon muttered softly before asking, "If you don't mind, can you tell who you are? Are you really a Devil's incarnate? Or are you Lumi's twin sister?"
"You can say I am a Devil's Incarnate, and you can say I am also Lumi's twin sister, or you can simply say I am neither of them at the same time," Duna answered vaguely.
However, Leon understood her words.
Simply put, Duna was just like him; someone who is both Leon Crawford and Leon Escladus, but at the same time, neither of them because they fused together.
Leon did guess that Lumi and Duna both had a fragment of a Devil's Soul sleeping deep within them, but he never expected for one of them to actually be the Devil's Incarnate herself.
"I see… The deathly aura belonged to you." Leon nodded before he asked with a furrowed bros, "However, if you are Lumi's twin sister, how did you ended up becoming one with Lumi instead?"
Although Leon could make a vague guess, he would rather hear the exact answer from the person herself.