We Can't Kill Sleeping Beauty (9)

I sighed as I admired the wonderful scenery where everything appeared the same as my dreams. It was as if time had stopped on the other side of the window. Outside the tower, the owners of the properties changed, plastering new logos near the top of each skyscraper. However, none of this was seen at this end.

"How could everything stay the same?" I wondered.

I froze from saying my thoughts out loud. How could nothing change on the other side of the window? It couldn't be right. There had to be a spell on the window. I placed my hand against the window and spread my mana onto its surface to search what the spell could be. My eyes widened when sudden ripples appeared, trying to welcome me inside.

"I'll go in first," Luke stopped me.

I nodded my head as I followed him from behind. I gasped as the room finally resembled the one in my dreams on the other side. I could spot the name card placed on the desks, the pictures with his eyes scratched out, and the numerous bookshelves. Mana hummed in the air, making me take a deep breath to suck some of them in.

"It's this place," I turned to Ben.

"I can't believe there was a place like this entire time," he couldn't stop staring at the room.

"Time had stopped here from the influence of the cave," I pushed one of the bookshelves.

Like I had expected, the entrance to the dark cave appeared from a narrow passageway. The walls of the cave glimmered, completely covered in mana crystals from the children who bled and cried in one of the routes to here. Mana crystals were the most expensive jewels one could possess in the first district. Many plants, filled with mana, twinkled along the way. They had to expensive as they could be extracted for many different purposes.

"Wouldn't this place benefit the Roselia family?" I tapped on Luke's shoulder.

"It would," Luke agreed.

Meanwhile, Ben was stunned from what he agreed to give away. It could have been all his if he knew about it. But he didn't know a few of the complex pathways like I did. There would be no need to use teleportation gates from its existence, saving a lot of precious mana.

"You could access these routes. They go to many places in the second district," I comforted him that it wasn't entirely a loss.

"Where do they go?" Ben studied his gains and losses.

"You'll have to do the exploring. I only know a few of them. One of them goes into a forest where the tale of sleeping beauty found this cave," I continued to retrace my steps to her.

I stopped leading the way when I found the same cage appeared with sleeping beauty inside. There was no difference from how she appeared in my dreams, surrounded by a garden of white wildflowers. This was the person I had to kill. I walked closer to her coffin, placing my hands against the cage that protected her.

"I'm here like you wanted," I whispered to her.

All I had to do was destroy that cage first. I guessed any large spell would do as the spell has worn out throughout the years. Like she had done to me, I chanted a big explosion spell to shatter her cage. Before the spell activated, I ran away to avoid the impact of the cage shattering. I covered my ears as the presence of the cage completely disappeared, not leaving a single trace.

I gasped as a portal from the other dimension suddenly swirled in front of sleeping beauty. Jason, the overseer angrily stepped out, looking for the person who destroyed the cage. I didn't think he would come here.

"You're the one who destroyed the cage," his gaze turned to me after tracing the path of mana.

"She wanted to be freed. She visited my dreams every night, begging me to kill her while threatening to drag me along with her. You're the one who pretended not to notice her. She pulled your arms before taking me into that portal back then. You took away my identity, knowing she was behind the scenes the entire time!" I yelled.

"Why don't you kill her to make her wish come true?" I didn't want to become a murderer.

"That can't be true. I knew there was someone interfering, but it couldn't be Marion," he stroked her hair.

"You're the one who heartlessly ignored her while she wailed, helplessly on the floors for you to notice her," I wasn't going to let him off the hook.

"Marion will wake up someday," he glared at me.

"She hasn't shown any signs of waking up for a thousand years. She wants to be free now," I took a glance at his slender dagger held by his belt.

"I won't kill her. I have seen too many tragedies while as the overseer," his voice chilled as ice blocks.

"Then save me. Save me from dying while I sleep. I want to live," I screamed.

"Jason Mercier, I'm doing this because I want to live. I understand you turned into a fairy because you wanted to wait for her to wake up, but you should take care of your own mess. I'm not willing to become another victim in this story," I clenched my fists.