It was quite difficult to communicate with each other, especially when most people were looking at me with hostility and apathy.
However, communication was still necessary. Otherwise, how could I possibly have any hope for the future if I was completely confused?
It was a rather strange feeling. Even though I had no impression of the Silver Dragon at all, I mysteriously felt that she was familiar. Not only that, every single word she said seemed to be able to touch my heart. This strange sense of familiarity was even beginning to affect my rational judgment.
"We were once good friends, extremely good friends …"
The elegant Silver Dragon smiled at me, but there were some emotions and expressions that I couldn't understand.
Her sapphire and black dragon heads were still snoring away. Judging from what my second and third sisters said, I was certain that each dragon head had its own thoughts. Perhaps this was why she had to maintain her dragon form and was unable to leave this cave … This was obviously abnormal.
Indeed, there were indeed multi-headed creatures in the natural world. Nine-headed Dragons had even more heads, but if each dragon head had its own will, then which direction they chose would be a topic of discussion.
Most multi-headed creatures only had a single consciousness, and the only known exception was the Ogre, a two-headed Ogre. It was a funny joke that they were good at fighting with themselves.
"What's going on with Cher?"
After all, the Silver Dragon in my eyes was Cher's adoptive mother. She was the one who said that Cher was her child. But now, the Silver Dragon was saying that she was Cher's daughter, so what was going on …
"You, are you my granddaughter? I've become a grandfather so quickly! I'll say this first — I won't pay you back the New Year's money and pocket money I've been saving for the past several hundred years! "
"Pfft."
Alright then, the other "Evelyns" all laughed out loud. Even the Silver Dragon helplessly looked at me. Her original elegance was nowhere to be found.
"… Your brain seems to be even more damaged than it was two hundred years ago. But from a certain standpoint, you're right … Don't run away, nobody's asking you for pocket money!"
"Cough, I really didn't intend to run away. I have so many granddaughters here. I just wanted to go back and buy some candy."
"I already told you, you're not my granddaughter!"
Everyone's complaints were filled with a sense of helplessness. At least in their memories, although Roland was sometimes reckless, most of the time, he was still very reliable. Why did it feel like all the parts in their heads were broken after meeting him? Could it be that they had really gone senile?
But right now, I, Roland, was in a mess as well. I had mysteriously gained ten granddaughters, and it was no longer sufficient to describe how chaotic the social circle was right now. I was only speaking nonsense to ease the confusion in my heart.
"Ahem, to explain this, what do you understand about desire between men and women? Yes, the lust of the original sin. "
It seemed that it was finally time to give an explanation. I hesitated for a moment before giving my answer.
"It's the most basic biological instinct that is on par with appetite. Under the influence of hormones, they search for excellent individuals to reproduce. Their goal is to produce high-quality offspring and allow the entire race to evolve.
"… You deserve to be single for the rest of your life."
"Sorry, I have a girlfriend now."
"Is that so? She must be very pitiful. After all, she met a man who doesn't know how to love. "
Alright then, Evelyn didn't seem to have any intentions of hiding anything. Soon, I was able to understand what was going on.
Lust of the Seven Original Sins — Evelyn … no, it was Lust of the Seven Original Sins, Cher!
Yep, it was Cher. Evelyn and Cher were two completely different individuals. Their current complicated mother-daughter relationship was probably my doing as well.
As for what exactly happened back in the day, it probably wasn't anything good. At the very least, Evelyn had no intention of explaining at all.
"What happened back in the day? No wonder you forgot. After all, it wasn't anything good for you. In that case, since you've already forgotten, why bother remembering? "
To be honest, I always hated it when others looked at me with pity. This would make me feel like an idiot. But for some reason, I didn't feel any disgust towards Evelyn's rudeness. Instead, I felt a sense of familiarity and warmth.
"Am I a perverted masochist who enjoys other people's looks of disdain?"
"No, I think it's just pure Alzheimer's disease. This is a friendly relationship between a patient and a doctor."
The silly cat's retorts came as expected. But according to our agreement, her retorting now meant that all of Evelyn's consciousness had returned and that the Slime Calamity had ended. However, I didn't know how to respond to Evelyn's words.
"Back in the day, some things happened between us. The final result was that we all died. "
Alright then, since there were so many things to criticize, my little friend and I were both astonished. We didn't even know how to criticize Evelyn anymore. But after that, even more things to criticize made me give up on the idea of criticizing her.
"Cher … back in the day, she should have been called Cher. She killed me back in the day, but you didn't want me to die. You wanted to break the barrier between life and death, so you …"
The more I listened, the more numb I felt. It would seem that I was perhaps even crazier back in the day than I was now.
My good friend Evelyn had died because of me. And so, in order to break the barrier between life and death, I did some rather insane things back in the day.
"Why does this storyline sound so familiar?"
"Lisa and Eliza … you really haven't improved at all."
"I won't deny it."
But things were different from back in the day. Perhaps it was because I was emotionally hurt or something, but back in the day, I was even more intense and went even more overboard.
Why did I say that I was emotionally hurt? It was because Evelyn had provided me with her personal notes, and one of the things she said was quite familiar.
[… So-called love is nothing more than a combination of animal instincts and hormones. Lust's ultimate effect on all living creatures is for the sake of producing outstanding offspring. The ultimate goal is the evolution of an entire species. In that case, I extracted a part of my soul that was related to love. Would I be able to create a special structure that would allow female souls to automatically produce offspring? This is quite an interesting research topic. I've decided to name it after the original human sin, 'Lust' … System Notification: This is a portion of the notes that can't be read clearly. Don't be too grateful to me; I'm Lei Feng. By the way, the first part of the notes can be used as the FFF Party Emblem.]
"Interesting, my ass!"
Alright then, my system didn't respond to my intense retorts. Evelyn's explanation was still ongoing.
"You combined all three of our souls together. Cher constantly wavered between life and death, and as long as the time was right, she would activate the mechanism you left behind and give birth to a new 'Evelyn.' That's why I don't even know if I'm your good friend Evelyn from the past, or if I'm just a simple soul replica. "
With the help of the notes and Evelyn's explanation, I was able to roughly guess what happened back in the day.
Back in the day, Evelyn, Cher (now Cher), and I were all good friends. Something happened later, and it was nothing more than a falling out or betrayal. The end result was that Evelyn was killed by Cher in order to protect me. Furious, I wanted to take revenge for Evelyn and revive her, so I used Cher as my experimental subject.
Due to the limitations of my abilities back in the day, my experiment was only half successful. The mother Cher used herself as nourishment and successfully created Evelyn. The price for breaking the barrier between life and death was that Cher herself should have died. However, due to the limitations of my undead magic abilities back in the day, an error occurred in this unsuccessful experiment.
Even Eliza and Lisa were two different people. The original Evelyn's soul had already returned to the Gui Ming River, so it was impossible to summon her soul from the very start. This method of summoning Evelyn's soul would only create a replica made up of soul fragments and memories. The mother Cher didn't die either. She was simply an infant who didn't even know what had happened.
Then, after Roland himself died, this abnormal experiment fell into a vicious cycle. Every time Cher reached a certain stage of growth, a mechanism within her soul would be activated, and a new Evelyn would be born from her physical body and soul.
And as "Lust" instinctively pursued genetic evolution, the new Evelyn would evolve and become stronger in all aspects. As this entire mechanism and the future generations evolved, the original Evelyn would also obtain the genes of the new Evelyn and evolve together. The entire Evelyn species was evolving generation after generation.
"At the very beginning, I was only an ordinary person with some Dragon Bloodlines, and I had many personalities with a split soul. Later on, I became a mixed-blood Dragon Bloodline, SemiDragon, Half-dragon, True Dragon … Now, Evelyn has been born eight times, and Cher has lived eight times. As her mother, I've raised her eight times. After so many years, I no longer have a trace of hatred towards her. I only hope that I can give her a happy life, and the only one who can cut off the cycle of this curse and give her a new life is probably you, the one who started it all. "
Apart from opening my mouth wide like a hippopotamus and burying my head like an ostrich, I didn't know what else to do.
"You should've already guessed that Cher was your first love back in the day. However, the current Cher has nothing to do with her anymore, so please don't take your anger out on her. And if you get rid of those abnormal curses, you'll probably become more normal. "
That's right, it was a curse. Snow had been cursed at the cost of severing her own emotions. She would be filled with regret and pain, using her own soul to make up for her mistakes. This was a perfect example of a curse of vengeance.
From a certain standpoint, I was quite foolish back in the day, paying such a price just because my first love failed and I was betrayed.
"… You won't believe in women anymore just because your first love failed? Where did such a pure and innocent youth come from! Was I so chuunibyou back in the day? "
[You were far more chuunibyou and innocent than you imagined. Didn't you forget about Cher the first time you reincarnated because you were worried that remembering her would be painful? Ah, what a beautiful yet twisted first love. As expected, first love is only delicious when it's sour and sweet.]
"Sour and sweet, my ass! This is clearly poison mixed with sh * t! "
[You're using sh * t to describe your first love? You have such a heavy taste …]
Alright then, my System was becoming more and more shameless. It seemed that it had been waiting to see this joke for a long time.
Indeed, Evelyn herself wasn't my creation. She was an independent individual, and the current Cher of the Seven Original Sins was indeed my creation. Naturally, she was also my daughter. But the relationship between Cher and me was so messy that I didn't want to seriously think about it anymore.
Suddenly, I recalled Little Seven's previous words, "Little Eleven will probably be born in two years." Could it be that Cher's new Cycle of Reincarnation was about to begin?
"What are the conditions for triggering a new Cycle of Reincarnation?"
Although I already had a premonition that this would be a huge scam, I still asked.
"… Love. Once Cher falls in love with someone, her life will begin its countdown."
I collapsed onto the ground speechlessly. Was it really necessary for me to be so stubborn back in the day? This was obviously going way overboard.
"A reincarnated first love will be reborn as a baby as long as she falls in love with someone else. Roland, you're so ridiculously pure, so pure that it's twisted."
I was rendered speechless by the silly cat's comment. In the end, I could only say something as I turned around and left.
"I'll stop the Cycle of Reincarnation. Let me take a look at Lust Cher's internal structure first. I'll find a solution."
"Don't leave so quickly. I still wanted to chat with you. Forget it, remember to come earlier next time. Let's chat first."
The Copper Dragon Evelyn was still calling out to me from behind, while the other Evelyns silently watched as that man ran away in an incredibly pathetic fashion.
A long silence continued in the underground room until a voice broke the silence.
"Why did you only tell me half of it?"
"Half of it is enough. Cher has suffered far too much. It's enough as long as you can solve her problem. If you really wanted to talk things out with him, how could you miss such a good opportunity? "
The sleeping Sapphire Dragon opened her eyes. She was the first Evelyn, as well as the main personality of the three-headed dragon. However, up until now, she had been in a deep sleep … or more accurately speaking, she was pretending to be asleep.
"I'm forcefully suppressing Third Sister. You know how much Third Sister loves Cher and how much she hates Roland …"
"Which one of us doesn't hate him … Hate him for completely ignoring Evelyn's love for him, only to fall head over heels in love with Cher. Hate him for intentionally stepping into a trap of certain death and using his own death to create a curse just for the sake of what Evelyn said to Cher, all for the sake of activating that damned endless loop. This guy is really a super hateful bastard. "
"Everyone else is frustrated to death, but he actually has a new girlfriend. Serves him right for not telling him."
The one who spoke up was actually the icy Blue Dragon Evelyn.
That sentence? That's right. If there was anything that Evelyn was hiding, it would probably be the last words that Evelyn had said before her death: "If reincarnation really does happen, I hope that I can become your lover in my next life. Before that, please don't fall in love with someone else."
Perhaps this was Evelyn's unwillingness before her death? Her final grudge? Her hopes for her next life? However, Roland had the ability to turn this unwillingness into reality. It was precisely because of her last words of "don't fall in love with someone else before you die" that caused Roland to split his soul and abandon all of his love cells.
Unfortunately, two years ago, before his last reincarnation, although he had forgotten about "Lust" Cher, he still remembered Evelyn. But now that he had reincarnated, he had lost this important memory. This was also why the current Evelyns were so angry at Roland.
"We were born with all of Evelyn's feelings and memories. But if we're truly Evelyns, how could there be multiple Evelyns? Just what did Roland do back then …"
Every single Evelyn was an individual. Naturally, everyone would have different reactions to the same thing. Evelyns had different personalities. Some had motherly love for Cher, some still had feelings for Roland, some wanted to kill him, some wanted to stop the Cycle of Reincarnation, some were looking forward to the birth of a new younger sister, some wanted to continue their previous relationship, and some didn't believe that they had anything to do with what happened back then.
By now, this had become a huge mess. And, Roland's troubles had only just begun.
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