Chapter 493: Reviving the dead

I can then see Kenny who arrived at the buffet, I didn't even had a chance to greet him as he hugged me while crying.

"Dude, sorry to say this, but I'm not good at emotional support, besides Stella prefers a an emotional stronger man to make up for her slight lack of emotions."

"I'm really sorry again that you have to go through all 3 years of that." he apologized out of nowhere

"I already told you before when we first met that I'm past it."

"Just let us have our moment here."

"Well did you passed or did you fail?"

"I passed." he replied weakly

"Then you're in 1st place, I'm now one step closer to being alive again."

"You're so dead when you get out of this stupid all you can eat buffet of yours."

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Dabria POV

"This...this...this is a...nightmare."

"Honey, what's wrong?" Perseus asked and placed his forehead against hers "You are acting weird despite not being sick in anyway."

'Trial: Live through your nightmare.'

"You're not Perseus, you're too nice!" I accused

"What do you mean?" fake Perseus asked "We've been married for 30 years despite our youthful looks."

"I was being a bitch, I didn't clean the dishes, I refuse to touch you, and ate wildly like an animal ON PURPOSE, the real one would have scolded me before doing the dishes anyway, but even his patience have limits, and it's been 2 months."

"What are you talking about? Did you miss our kids after they move already? Is that why you-"

"Shut up!" Dabria retorted "And why should I be nice, all you want is my body and another woman, every night, different woman! Why the hell do I not want a divorce?!"

"But you agreed to it, my love." he replied as she felt a shiver running down her spine "I thought you enjoy-"

"What? Sex with you? Let me tell you something and I'll get straight to the point, I do, and it's with the real one. And I can easily tell since you are naked, the real one is at least 3 times bigger than you!"

The fake Perseus actually looked hurt. The truth always hurts most, I guess, narrating feels great, no wonder that guy do this all the time.

"I'm about average, if you're not satisfied, I can always use magic." he offered

"Shut it, just give me the divorce papers and let me leave this hell hole, the bedroom stink of you and those other women."

"Was our 30 years nothing?" Perseus teared up "Our times at college, our struggles through poverty, we now have wealth beyond imagination, why are you like this?"

"Say that to those other women you slept with the past 2 months, cuz I'm tired of it."

"I can stop."

"Stop trying to make stupid excuses, the real Perseus, the one I...he maybe a greedy bastard who got 3 women instead of one, but in no way would he find excuses for sleeping with women other than them, he'll be the first person to tell everyone of his affair if that happens regardless of whether we be mad at him or not or whether he was drugged into doing so, he's the one that my brother trust, and that's the person who I want to live with!"

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Elektra's POV

'Trial: Endure the 10,000 deaths.'

If it's for Perseus, I was willing to risk anything for him and give up everything including my life for it, he was that precious to me. As I lived with him the past few months, I kept remembering the time I raised him and how he has matured until now, he still treated me as family.

My objective was to only raise him and not get attached so that I could kill him easier without hesitation, because too, early, it would arouse suspicion, too late, he will be born later and would currently be weaker. His smile are always so big, even when facing an opponent like Chaos and saying crude things, that smile of confidence...it was something I've deeply treasured.

But that wasn't it, I had to endure watching the boy I raised...dying again...and again...and again right in front of me, with the first one being how he recently died, but after that was the worst things I wish I can forget, and I doubt Lethe can erase the memories of this trial.

I saw him abused, stab, bled to death eaten alive and many others, I cannot close my eye as this trial kept it opened. Some are happy deaths where Perseus sacrificed himself for others, but those are few in numbers and sometimes the trials will show me the aftermath where his death was actually in vain.

The worst ones are the interactive ones where I was placed onto the scene itself.

"Aunti...Mom...please leave me...and run away." Perseus pleaded

I couldn't do anything but cry as I held him close, he no longer had his legs, I had to watch him fight some demons where he was bullied and beaten severely to the brink of death as I can do nothing as my movement was restricted.

"My sweet boy..." All I could do was cry.

"Mom, leave me...here...I'm already...beyond...help..." he replied as e wiped my tears

"No, my son, I would never leave you." He then had a smile on his face

"Thanks mom, thank you for everything." he mustered all his strength to say that before he went limp.

I never let him call me his mother as it was very disrespectful to his real mother who is a good friend of mine, but he was happy, at least he died with a smile on his face after I called him my son.

I then had to watch him die many more times, I watched him being tied up to watch his loved ones assaulted and killed at his lowest and eventually...

'You passed the trial. 2/4 completion.'