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He Fed Me to the Serpents, So I Came Back to Ruin Him HD
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00:00Late that night, Chester knocked on my door, holding a lantern with perfect servant deference.
00:04Lady Whitmere, the old madam asks if you will enter the hall again tomorrow.
00:07Eleanor, did the serpent send you, did she?
00:09Chester's expression stayed neutral.
00:11You're overthinking.
00:12I sealed the room with silver seals.
00:14Only Lucian and I remained with him.
00:16Chester finally looked up.
00:17The silver sight lives up to its name.
00:19How many years have you hidden in the Hargroves?
00:21Forty-three.
00:22He spoke calmly.
00:23The Hargroves think they can control the Serpent Gate, but those behind it have waited for them to walk into
00:27the trap.
00:27I asked about the silver arrow.
00:30You want the sacred relic.
00:31The Serpent Court wants it.
00:33Callum wants it to survive.
00:34Jenna wants it to open the gate.
00:36Everyone is waiting for you to act, Lady Whitmore.
00:39Callum, I just saw Chester enter Lady Rowena's room.
00:42Are they plotting something?
00:45Rowena, what exactly are you doing behind my back?
00:52Callum immediately accused me of colluding with the Serpent Court through Chester.
00:59I didn't deny seeking the arrow.
01:04It was my goal.
01:05He seized on it, turning everyone against me.
01:11You were never here to save us.
01:15You came for Hargrave possessions from the start.
01:18That relic belongs to Whitmore, not Hargrige.
01:23Jenna spoke softly.
01:25Callum.
01:27I've long felt Lady Rowena's hostility.
01:31I didn't dare say it before.
01:34I feared you'd think me petty.
01:36Her eyes reddened again.
01:39Callum's disgust towards me deepened.
01:42Hand over your silver seals.
01:45From now on, any ritual needs my approval.
01:50You want to control my power, to manage the gate?
01:54This is my home!
01:56I have the right to know what you're doing.
02:00I summoned a wisp of Althea's white serpent shadow.
02:03It coiled around Callum's death mark.
02:07He cried out in pain, face paling.
02:09You have the right to know this, for example.
02:13You're still standing, only because I allow it.
02:17Jenna stumbled back in fear.
02:19Callum stared at me with a mix of rage and newfound terror.
02:23Lucian spoke quietly at my side.
02:26She saves you by choice, not obligation.
02:30Remember that.
02:37Eleanor called a family meeting.
02:39Summoning all Hargroff branches.
02:44It was framed as discussing the gate,
02:46but clearly meant to force me to submit publicly.
02:51Many saw my scarred face for the first time.
02:54Whispers spread.
02:56How terrifying the scar was.
02:58How no wonder Callum preferred Jenna.
03:02I heard every word.
03:04In my past life, such talk would have crushed me.
03:08Now it was just noise.
03:10Eleanor sat at the head, voice heavy.
03:15Lady Whitmora, your power is great.
03:19But we've seen your emotions are unstable.
03:23For the family's safety,
03:25the sealing arts cannot remain solely in your hands.
03:28Callum didn't intervene.
03:33He sat silently, endorsing the ambush.
03:38Jenna added fuel.
03:42I'm only worried Lady Roeth might resent me.
03:45And take it out on the entire Hargroff family.
03:49All eyes turned to me.
03:51I stood and activated the silver sight.
03:54Behind every person,
03:55shadows of sacrificed women appeared.
03:58Maids, adopted daughters,
04:00wives offered as tribute.
04:02Those who had mocked my scar
04:03dropped to their knees in terror.
04:05You wanted to talk safety?
04:07Then look at how many lives
04:09you've trampled beneath your feet.
04:12Jenna's smile finally shattered.
04:18Chaos erupted after the ghosts appeared.
04:20Some begged me to withdraw the sight.
04:21Others accused Eleanor.
04:22She paled and instinctively protected the legacy book.
04:25I saw it.
04:26The sacrifice ledger is inside the book.
04:27Eleanor's hand froze.
04:28Callum tried to block me.
04:29Rowena, don't make this uglier.
04:30The ugly one is your family's centuries of blood debt.
04:33Jenna clutched her chest,
04:34collapsing into a chair.
04:36I can't breathe.
04:37Callum, I'm so scared.
04:39Callum moved to help her,
04:40but a white serpent shadow blocked him,
04:43staring coldly at Jenna.
04:45She stopped aggravating her sobs.
04:48I approached Eleanor.
04:50Give me the ledger.
04:51Eleanor forced a smile.
04:54Child, those are old matters.
04:55You already died once.
04:57Why keep pursuing?
04:59I leaned close.
05:02Because I died once,
05:04I know exactly what being chosen
05:06by you feels like.
05:08Callum watched with fleeting complexity
05:11before Jenna's sobs pulled him away again.
05:14My cold laugh deepened.
05:18He was never worth it.
05:20Callum tried a softer approach that evening,
05:23coming to my room with a gentler tone.
05:26Roland,
05:27we can cooperate.
05:29You want the silver arrow?
05:31I want the Hargroves to survive.
05:33Our goals...
05:35McLean.
05:36I knew what came next.
05:38The same fake, fake concern from my past life.
05:41I know some words hurt you before,
05:43but now isn't the time to dwell on it.
05:45Some words?
05:47I turned my face so he could see the scar clearly.
05:50You mocked my face,
05:53protected Jenna as she harmed me,
05:55demanded my seals.
05:58And you call it some words?
06:00Callum frowned.
06:02You're too sensitive now.
06:03Lucien entered with medicine and overheard.
06:06She died once because of you all,
06:09and now you call her sensitive?
06:11Who do you think you are?
06:12Her servant?
06:13Guard?
06:14Or just the dog she keeps?
06:16Lucien remained calm.
06:17I can be anything she wants.
06:19But you?
06:20You're different.
06:21How?
06:22Even when she bleeds,
06:23you only ask why she didn't protect others.
06:26The room fell silent.
06:27I looked away,
06:29no longer wanting to hear Callum.
06:32Give me the key.
06:33Tomorrow we enter the underground chamber.
06:37Callum gritted his teeth
06:39and placed the key on the table.
06:44The underground chamber lay behind Hargrot Hall,
06:47dust and serpent energy rushed out as the door opened.
06:51Whitmore hunting tools,
06:52silver blades,
06:53short bows,
06:54chains,
06:54hung on the walls like trophies.
06:57My chest tightened.
06:58These belonged to my family,
07:00displayed as Hargrok spoils.
07:02As I approached,
07:03the tools hummed in recognition.
07:06Several blades tilted toward me.
07:08Callum's eyes gleamed with greed.
07:10If these can suppress the gate,
07:13why not lend them to the Hargroves first?
07:15After stealing them for centuries,
07:17you still want to borrow more?
07:19Jenna followed us in.
07:21Seeing the tools respond to me,
07:23jealously flashed in her eyes.
07:25Impressive.
07:27Too bad it all came at the cost of your face.
07:30Lucian took a loosened silver blade from the wall
07:33and placed it in my hand.
07:35They recognize you,
07:36not because of your face,
07:38but because you are Whitmore.
07:40His words settled warmly in my heart.
07:42I gripped the blade.
07:44Silver light bloomed.
07:46All the tools vibrated in univine.
07:48Jenna's expression soured completely.
07:50What she hated most wasn't my strength.
07:52It was that even scarred,
07:53I still had someone standing by my side.
07:56Deepest in the chamber hung an old painting.
07:58The first Whitmore lunar huntress
08:01beside a golden-horned white deer.
08:03The deer shielded her from serpents.
08:05Its antlers wrapped in moonlight.
08:08Lucian's face changed when he saw it.
08:11He looked away too late.
08:12You've seen this painting?
08:14No.
08:14He answered too quickly.
08:16Callum noticed,
08:16his expression turning dangerous.
08:17Seems your servant knows quite a lot.
08:19I stepped in front of Lucian.
08:20None of your concern.
08:21Callum sneered.
08:22Rowena, you'd shield a mere servant from me?
08:24Lucian's eyes chilled.
08:25I spoke calmly without turning.
08:26He is not a mere servant.
08:27Lucian fell silent.
08:28My own heart stirred unexpectedly at the words.
08:31Jenna watched with a light laugh.
08:32Lady Rowena is so enviable.
08:35Face ruined,
08:36yet still so protected.
08:38How much of that protection is real, I wonder?
08:41At least more than what you stole.
08:43Her face darkened.
08:44Suddenly,
08:45her bracelet glowed.
08:47Serpent energy corrupted the tools,
08:49turning them against me.
08:51Jenna cried out in fake alarm.
08:54Callum, watch out!
08:55The tools have gone out of control!
08:56But excitement burned in her eyes.
08:59The tools lunged at me.
09:02They heard their silver lament.
09:06They didn't want to harm their true owner.
09:08Jenna's serpent energy forced them.
09:11Callum's first instinct was to shield Jenna.
09:13Rowena, control them!
09:15Don't let them touch Jenna!
09:16I ignored him and summoned the moon's silver bow.
09:21Moonlight formed the string.
09:23I fired arrows,
09:25tearing serpent energy from the blades one by one.
09:29They fell obediently at my feet.
09:32Each shot burned my scar like a fresh blade cut.
09:35Pain seared through me.
09:36I grit my teeth and kept drawing.
09:38Lucian suddenly grabbed my hand.
09:40Enough!
09:40Not yet cleared!
09:42I said enough, you're hurting.
09:43Everyone else fixated on my scar.
09:44Fearing, hating, using it.
09:46Only Lucian cared if it hurt.
09:47This isn't the time for your intimacy.
09:49Rowena, continue.
09:50Lucian turned on him.
09:52Shut your mouth.
09:54Callum's face darkened.
09:57I released the bowstring,
09:58refusing his order for the first time.
10:01The rest can wait until I decide.
10:03Jenna looked furious.
10:04She had wanted to exhaust me.
10:06She never expected Lucian could make me stop.
10:09Or that I would choose to for him.
10:12I followed Jaina into the underground water chath.
10:14She stood on the stone steps before the outer serpent gate.
10:18Her innocent mask finally debardened.
10:20Do you know where the silver arrow really is?
10:22I remained silent,
10:23gripping the hilt of the silver blade,
10:25see the sound echoing coldly off the walls.
10:27It's not in the chamber.
10:29It's buried in Althea's heart.
10:31The first Hargroves used it to nail her into the earth vein
10:35and create this gate.
10:37My fingers tightened painfully.
10:39The weight of generations of betrayal pressed down on me.
10:42Jenna stepped closer,
10:43her voice dripping venom.
10:45If you want Whitmore's relic back,
10:47you'll have to pull the arrow.
10:49But the moment you do,
10:51the gate opens.
10:52Everyone will blame you for destroying Hargrove Hall.
10:54Callum will hate you.
10:56Eleanor will hate you.
10:57They'll say you did it because no one could love your scarred face.
11:00The words stung,
11:01but not as deeply as they once would have.
11:03I met her gaze steadily,
11:04the lunar scar on my cheek pulsing with silver light.
11:07You still think I care what Callum thinks of me?
11:10Jenna's smile faltered for a split second.
11:12I continued,
11:13my voice low but firm.
11:15You're wrong.
11:16I didn't come back to prove I'm worthy of love.
11:18I came to make sure all of you pay what you owe.
11:22Her expression turned ugly.
11:23She spat one last barb
11:25before leaping deeper into the waterway.
11:28You really think Lucian will keep protecting you?
11:31Men are all the same.
11:33Once he gets tired of looking at that face,
11:35he'll leave too.
11:36I stood there as her footsteps faded,
11:39the cold water lapping at my boots.
11:40Her words tried to burrow into old wounds,
11:43but Lucian's steady presence in my mind pushed them back.
11:45I turned and climbed back to the surface,
11:47the truth now clear in my heart.
11:49The silver arrow rested in Althea's chest.
11:53I'm sorry.
11:53Back above ground,
11:54I found Lucian waiting in the shadows of the hall.
11:57His quiet strength grounded me
11:59as I told him what Jenna had revealed.
12:01He listened without interruption,
12:03his eyes never leaving mine.
12:04Will you pull it?
12:05I have to,
12:07but not recklessly.
12:08I'll use Callum's blood,
12:10Jenna's serpent contract,
12:12Chester's serpent court mark,
12:14and Eleanor's sacrifice ledger to form a new seal.
12:17Lucian studied me carefully,
12:19no fear in his gaze,
12:20only unwavering resolve.
12:22Then we do it.
12:24A small smile tugged at my lips despite everything.
12:26You won't ask if I'll turn into a monster?
12:28You won't.
12:30How can you be so sure?
12:32He paused,
12:33then stepped closer,
12:34and gently rewrapped the bandage on my palm.
12:38Because even when you could have let Callum die tonight,
12:40you still saved the entire estate.
12:43His words pierced through the armor I had built around my heart.
12:46I had hated them all so fiercely,
12:48yet I refused to become the destroyer they feared.
12:52Lucian saw that in me when no one else did.
12:54The scar on my face burned less fiercely in that moment.
12:57Tomorrow we go to Eleanor.
12:58Good.
12:59I lingered in his presence a moment longer,
13:02drawing quiet comfort from the way he stood guard beside me,
13:06unflinching.
13:08Eleanor refused to surrender the sacrifice's ledger.
13:11She sat in the main study,
13:13cradling her peach blossom tea.
13:14Her grandmotherly facade finally stripped away to reveal cold calculation.
13:18Rowena,
13:19you already know too much.
13:21A smart girl knows when to stop.
13:23The memories flooded back.
13:25Her smiles as she fed me poison.
13:27Her indifference as she watched me die.
13:30Anger surged through my veins.
13:32When you sent me into the serpent gate,
13:35in my past life,
13:36did you also think I should have stopped?
13:38Her hand trembled slightly on the teacup.
13:40Do you remember?
13:41I remember everything.
13:43Your sweet words.
13:44The poisoned tea,
13:46how you locked me inside,
13:47without a flicker of remorse.
13:50I sealed her teacup with a silver seal.
13:52The liquid inside turned black.
13:55Serpent shadows thrashing wildly.
13:58Lupien stood behind me.
14:00His presence a wall of silent fury.
14:03Eleanor's composure cracked.
14:05What do you want?
14:07The ledger.
14:08She resisted.
14:11I stepped forward and sealed her throat with silver light.
14:16Her mouth opened,
14:17but no sound emerged.
14:20You lied so many people to their deaths.
14:22This mouth of yours deserves rest.
14:25I retrieved the ledger from her hidden compartment.
14:27Page after page listed women's names.
14:30The final entry was my own.
14:32Rowena Whitmore.
14:33My fingers clenched until my knuckles whitened.
14:37This life,
14:37I would cross it out myself.
14:41Callum learned of the stolen ledger quickly.
14:44Instead of confronting Mimi directly,
14:46he lured Lupien away and trapped him in the old underground chapel beneath Hargrove Hall,
14:51an ancient altar etched with serpent arrays designed to suppress Lunarn Hunt blood.
14:56When I arrived,
14:57Lucien knelt in the center of the array,
14:59covered in wounds,
15:00yet his eyes glowed with a faint golden light.
15:02Callum stood outside the formation,
15:03a silver blade in hand.
15:04Don't come closer, Rowena.
15:05One more step and he dies for you.
15:07Eyes alight with vicious excitement.
15:09Lady Rowena,
15:10you're so powerful.
15:11Choose the silver arrow or him.
15:13Lucien looked at me through the pain and shook his head wiltly.
15:16Leave me.
15:17The plea tore at my chest.
15:19In my past life,
15:19I had told Callum the same thing,
15:21only for him to abandon me.
15:22I would not repeat his cruelty.
15:24Power erupted from my Huntress mark.
15:26Silver light shattered the serpent array inch by inch.
15:29Callum paled.
15:30You're mad.
15:31The Covenant will backlash.
15:33That's not for you to decide.
15:36I rushed into the formation,
15:39grabbed Lucien's hand,
15:40and dragged him free.
15:42His silver gold blood touched my pie palm,
15:45and the lingering dark energy
15:47recoiled as if burned.
15:51Lucien's blood was not red.
15:52It shimmered with faint silver gold light.
15:55The realization hit me
15:56as the serpent array's rainness fled from him.
15:58Who are you, really?
15:59Lucien remained silent for a long moment
16:02before answering softly.
16:03I promised to stay by the Whitmore airside.
16:05Promised whom?
16:07He didn't reply.
16:09But Callum had seen the blood.
16:11Greed twisted his features.
16:12So he's even more special than you.
16:14She laughed cruelly.
16:16Callum, if we use him as the new living lock,
16:18we won't need Rowena anymore.
16:20Callum didn't deny it.
16:22Cold fury settled in my chest.
16:24Touch him,
16:25and I will end the hog-rave bloodline tonight.
16:29You care about him that much?
16:32So even you can feel fear.
16:34I helped Lucien to his feet,
16:36my voice steady despite the storm inside.
16:40Yes, I fear.
16:42I fear him suffering the same fate I did.
16:45Being sacrificed by people like you
16:47who treat lives as disposable.
16:50Lucien glanced at me,
16:52emotion flickering in his eyes.
16:54I avoided looking back,
16:56afraid my own feelings would spill over.
17:01Callum and Jenna united against us.
17:04They spread rumors that Lucien's non-human aura
17:07was the true cause of the gate's instability.
17:11Jenna wept publicly,
17:13claiming she saw his golden blood
17:15and couldn't sleep from fear.
17:19Callum played the responsible family head.
17:21I don't want to hurt anyone,
17:23but for the Hargroves,
17:25I must uncover what he is.
17:27The hypocrisy made me want to laugh.
17:29This was their old game.
17:32One crying, the other forced to act.
17:35Only now, the knives were aimed elsewhere.
17:40I stepped in front of Lucien.
17:42Anyone who wants to investigate him
17:44goes through me first.
17:45Callum's face darkened.
17:47Rowena, you'd abandoned
17:48the entire Hargrove family's safety for him?
17:51I protected you.
17:53You don't deserve it.
17:55Lady Rowena,
17:56have you forgotten Lucien's just an outsider you picked up?
17:59An outsider cleaner than you'll ever be.
18:01Lucien spoke quietly behind me.
18:03You don't have to shield me like this.
18:06I want to.
18:09The words surprised even me.
18:12We retreated to the forest behind the hall.
18:15Serpent energy pursued us to the edge,
18:17but dared not enter.
18:20Moonlight filtered through the trees
18:22as I tended Lucien's wounds.
18:24Why do you remember the past life?
18:27He was quiet for a long time.
18:29Because when you died,
18:31I was there too.
18:32My hands stilled on the bandages.
18:34I was trapped in the formation.
18:36I heard you begging him to open the door.
18:38I couldn't break free.
18:40I could only watch it close.
18:42The memory of that freezing night crashed over me.
18:44Not everyone had abandoned me.
18:48Someone had tried.
18:51My throat tightened.
18:53I always thought if I were stronger,
18:54you wouldn't have died.
18:56That wasn't your fault.
18:58But I was still too late.
18:59I looked at him,
19:00the urge to embrace him nearly overwhelming.
19:03Instead, I whispered,
19:04this time,
19:05you weren't too late.
19:07Lucien met my eyes
19:08and smiled faintly for the first time.
19:11It was small,
19:12but it lit up the darkness around us
19:14like moonlight on water.
19:16My Huntress mark began spiraling out of control.
19:22Visions of blood deeds and deaths
19:24flooded my silver sight.
19:28I saw Elinor dragged by ghosts.
19:35Chester devoured by the serpent court.
19:39Jenna consumed by her own power.
19:43And Callum begging on his knees.
19:47Ardis' voice echoed in my mind,
19:50commanding me to hunt those.
19:56Who fed the serpents.
20:01I nearly summoned the oath arrow.
20:03Lucien seized my shoulders.
20:05Rowena, look at me.
20:07The silver light and blood
20:08blurted my vision.
20:10Pain tore through the scar on my face.
20:12Move!
20:13I need to kill them!
20:15Lucien held firm.
20:17You can take revenge.
20:20But don't give yourself to the covenant.
20:23He cut his own palm
20:25and pressed the silver-gold blood
20:26against my scar.
20:28The divine fury retreated.
20:30I could breathe again.
20:32You are not the goddess's blade.
20:34You are Rowena.
20:36Tears stung my eyes.
20:39He had shown me I could hurt,
20:40hate,
20:41and still remain myself.
20:43I closed my eyes.
20:45Don't let go.
20:47Don't let go.
20:49Chester stole the sacrifice ledger,
20:51hoping to trade it to the serpent court
20:54for freedom.
20:56We tracked him to an old underground room
20:59where he knelt before a black serpent mirror.
21:03A pale hand reached out
21:05and took the ledger,
21:07offering no promise.
21:11Executors have no freedom.
21:13Only the next order.
21:17Chester protested his 43 years of service.
21:21The mirror cracked
21:23and dark energy retaliated,
21:25rotting his brand.
21:33I didn't save him immediately.
21:36Lady Whitmore, save me!
21:39I can tell you how to close the gate!
21:41I can tell you how to close the gate!
21:44How many have you helped kill?
21:47Let him die.
21:49I stabilized the energy
21:50in Chester's body with a silver seal.
21:55You won't die yet.
21:58You'll watch what you served devour you.
22:03I reclaimed the ledger.
22:05The path to the silver arrow lay clear.
22:09The path to the silver arrow clear.
22:12Jenna publicly revealed the arrow's location
22:14in Althea's heart.
22:16She stood in the meeting hall,
22:18crying convincingly.
22:21If we get that arrow,
22:24can the Hargroves be saved?
22:27Callum, I don't...
22:28want you to die.
22:34The branches went wild with desperation.
22:37Callum pretended to restrain them,
22:39but I saw his agent slipping toward the hall depths.
22:42I blocked the entrance.
22:45Call them back.
22:47Callum stayed silent.
22:49Jenna tried to soften it.
22:51Lady Rowena,
22:52why must you think the worst of Callum?
22:55He only wants to save his family!
22:57Shut your mouth.
23:00I faced Callum directly.
23:02Do you want to save your family,
23:04or steal my arrow?
23:06If it can save the Hargroves,
23:08it shouldn't belong only to Whitmore.
23:10His true nature stood bare.
23:12The man who once wore affection like a mask,
23:17now showed his greed openly.
23:21I descended into the Earthvein with Lucian,
23:24crossled as the strage,
23:25and several clansmen forced their way after us.
23:27Serpent energy parted before me,
23:29and recoiled even more from Lucian.
23:33At the core,
23:35Althea was pinned to the gate,
23:37the silver arrow buried in her heart.
23:39She lowered her head,
23:41exposing the wound,
23:43begging for release.
23:44I grasped the arrow's hilt.
23:47Lucian stepped protectively behind me.
23:49Careful.
23:52Callum pressed a silver blade to Lucian's throat.
23:55Pull the arrow, Rowena,
23:57or he dies.
24:00I held the hilt motionless.
24:02Blood, silver gold,
24:03trickled from Lucian's throat,
24:05exciting the gate further.
24:07Jenna's eyes lit with greed.
24:09Callum,
24:10his blood can replace hers.
24:11Use him as the new lock.
24:13Callum didn't deny it.
24:14Choose the arrow,
24:16or his life.
24:17Don't mind me.
24:19The familiar cruelty broke something inside me.
24:21Why must everyone I cared for become their leverage?
24:25Do you know what disgust is me most about you?
24:27Callum frowned.
24:28You treat other people's sacrifices as natural rights?
24:32I released the arrow,
24:33and slashed my plomb instead,
24:35spilling silver blood,
24:37to summon the debts.
24:39Ghosts of sacrificed women rose,
24:42their eyes fixed on Callum.
24:44This time,
24:45judgment fell on the Hargors.
24:48The ghosts surrounded Callum.
24:51They whispered their names.
24:52Wives,
24:54maids,
24:55daughters,
24:55and my past self.
24:57He stumbled back,
24:59the blade leaving Lucian's throat.
25:02I pulled Lucian behind me.
25:05Jenna launched for the arrow.
25:08Serpent energy from the gate seized her instead,
25:12merging with her bracelet.
25:14Jenna laughed wildly,
25:17as she began transforming.
25:19Finally my turn.
25:21You knew it wanted your body?
25:23So what?
25:25At least I'll drag you all down with me!
25:28She yanked the arrow,
25:29partially free.
25:31Althea screamed,
25:32the gate cracked.
25:34Jenna, stop!
25:35Now you're scared?
25:36You protected me only because I was youthful!
25:41Their mutual betrayal lay exposed.
25:44Only I had once believed in their false bond.
25:47Lucian took my hand.
25:49Rowan,
25:50don't watch them.
25:51Do what you must.
25:51I nodded,
25:52stealing myself.
25:55The gate's opening caused Hargrove Hall to collapse.
25:59Black rail tents ensurged from the ground.
26:02Clack Sertman fled,
26:03only to be caught by their own ghosts.
26:06Eleanor was dragged before the fireplace,
26:09forced to confront the ledger.
26:11Rowena,
26:12save me!
26:13I was forced!
26:15It was all for the family!
26:17That's exactly what you said,
26:19while watching you die last time.
26:22She trembled.
26:24I was wrong!
26:25You're not sorry.
26:28You're just afraid,
26:30afraid to die.
26:32The ghosts pulled her into silver flames.
26:35Chester was devoured by his own masters.
26:38I asked Lucian if I seemed cruel.
26:40No.
26:41They owed you.
26:42His words erased my final hesitation.
26:46Callum seized the silver arrow,
26:48and fled toward the main hall,
26:49to reseal the gate.
26:51I chased him,
26:52to the iron door,
26:54the same one from my past life.
26:56Move aside, Rowena,
26:57and I'll let you go.
26:59We can settle the past later.
27:01The past?
27:02You speak so lightly of it.
27:04Jenna screamed for rescue in the distance.
27:07Callum barely glanced at her before turning away.
27:10He activated the mechanism to crap Lucian and me.
27:14Inside,
27:15Lucian pushed me aside and shattered the door
27:18with explosive silver-gold light.
27:20A golden-horned white deer phantom appeared behind him.
27:23The serpents recoiled in fear.
27:25At last,
27:26I understood.
27:27Lucian was the sacred beast guardian of the Whitmores.
27:31Lucian knelt by the broken door,
27:33the deer phantom fading.
27:35Callum stared in shock.
27:36What are you?
27:39Something far cleaner than you.
27:42The serpent court envoydy emerged,
27:44terrified.
27:45Moon, dear guardian.
27:47You still live.
27:49Lupien looked at me with apology.
27:51I didn't mean to hide it.
27:53We'll settle accounts after we get out.
27:55He smiled.
27:57I grasped the silver arrow.
27:59The Huntress Covenant fully awakened.
28:03Artemis warned of the price.
28:05Use mine.
28:06No.
28:08I'm the guardian.
28:09I should pay for you.
28:12I already died for others once.
28:15This life,
28:18I pay for my own choices.
28:23The oath arrow formed in cold white light.
28:27Jenna, half-serpent, charged in hatred.
28:31Why can you still stand?
28:35Why do you still have someone protecting you like that?
28:39Because I never gave myself to you.
28:42Lucian shielded me as the deer phantom repelled the energy.
28:45Callum begged on his knees.
28:47Roash, save me.
28:48I was wrong.
28:49In the past life, I had no choice.
28:52You had choices.
28:54Every time.
28:55You chose to hurt me.
28:57I drew the bow.
28:58Artemis demanded a span of lifespan.
29:00I accepted.
29:01Lupien cried out, but I reassured him with a glance.
29:05Don't worry.
29:06I still need to settle your secret with you.
29:08I released the arrow.
29:11It pierced Jenna.
29:12The gate.
29:13The blood contracts.
29:15And buried deep into the earth vein.
29:18Silver light exploded.
29:20The serpent-tort passages collapsed.
29:24The gate sealed.
29:26Althira's wound healed.
29:31She placed a final white scale in my palm.
29:34Before dissolving into light.
29:36Finally free.
29:37Jenna lay dying.
29:39Her body rejecting the serpent energy.
29:42I'm not willing.
29:43Why did someone like you win?
29:45Because I lost once.
29:47And I refused to lose again.
29:49Her body was consumed.
29:50Leaving only shattered coral.
29:52Callum's death mark vanished.
29:54But so did his family's power.
29:56He knelt broken in the ruins.
30:01Rowena.
30:03Save me once more.
30:06For our past-
30:07In the past life.
30:09You told me to hold the serpents until I died.
30:13I left him there.
30:17To face his fate alone.
30:23As the hall fully collapsed.
30:25Callum chased after me one last time.
30:28Desperate.
30:29Rowish.
30:29I was deceived by Jenna.
30:31Now I see clearly.
30:34You weren't deceived.
30:36You chose convenient lies every single time.
30:38Lucien stepped forward.
30:40Blocking Callum's view of me.
30:42Don't look at her.
30:43You have no right.
30:45Callum froze.
30:47Callum froze.
30:48I allowed the protection.
30:49Embracing it fully this time.
30:53At dawn, Hargrove Hall sank completely into ruin.
30:59I stood at a distance.
31:03Watching the last serpent's stench blow away on the wind.
31:08My huntress mark and scar remained.
31:12But so did my resolve.
31:19Lucien stood beside me.
31:21Does it still hurt?
31:24Why do you always ask that?
31:26Because you always pretend it doesn't.
31:28I laughed genuinely for the first time in ages.
31:32Lucien.
31:33How long have you guarded the Whitmans?
31:35Long enough.
31:36That I feared I'd always arrive too late.
31:38This time you didn't.
31:40Rowena.
31:40I never loved your face.
31:44His gaze held mine.
31:46Never wavering to the scar.
31:50I love that you crawled back from hell to claim your debts.
31:53And still chose to save the innocent.
32:00I took his hand willingly.
32:02Then don't be late again.
32:03I won't.
32:04We walked away from the ruins together into the morning light.
32:07This time...
32:10I didn't look back.
32:12I didn't look back.
32:13I didn't look back.
32:14I didn't look back.
32:15I didn't look back.
32:15I didn't look back.
32:16I didn't look back.
32:16I didn't look back.