“Aria, my angel.”
The Emperor spoke desperately.
“Please, save me.”
Save him?
The one who calls himself the son of God is begging a monster for salvation.
It was laughable.
Even that laughter had long since dried up.
Without the slightest movement, Aria stared at the hand reaching through the cage toward her.
“Sing, now!”
“……”
“Aria! If you don’t sing this instant, I’ll make sure you never walk again.”
The Emperor snarled like a beast.
He raged, cried, laughed, threatened, persuaded, and in the end even fell to his knees to beg.
He was completely insane.
“Please sing, Lady Siren. Have mercy on us.”
“Please… Lady Siren…”
Even the dancers prostrated themselves before Aria, rubbing their palms together in desperate supplication.
Just a few months ago, they had mocked her, flaunting their charm and laughter.
The musicians who once played to the Siren’s song, the conductor, even the knights who guarded the Emperor—
All of them waited for her lips to part.
“……Cough!”
At that moment, Aria suddenly coughed up blood.
Her coughing didn’t stop until her dress was stained red.
She clutched her heart.
Ah.
‘Now… I can finally die.’
Aria smiled in joy.
‘At last.’
She would finally be granted eternal rest.
Her tightly sealed lips slowly parted.
“Come, sweet death.”
Her voice, worn and rough from relentless abuse, cut through the air.
As Aria began to sing in a whisper, silence fell over everything.
No one could look away from her, as though they had forgotten how to breathe.
“Come, and guide me into peace.”
The song, which began softly, wrapped around them like warm sunlight.
Like the embrace of an angel they had longed for, it comforted them sweetly and caressed them gently.
“Ah… my God…”
Someone smiled peacefully, tears streaming down their face.
The melody seeped through their ears and deep into their bodies, touching even their hearts as it whispered within them.
“For I am weary of this world.”
This was originally a sacred hymn about yearning for heaven through death.
A song filled with deep faith.
But after passing through Aria’s dark, clinging voice, it became something entirely different.
It turned into a sensual whisper that called upon demons.
“Come, blessed rest!”
The gentle comfort that had been softly ringing out suddenly clenched their hearts tightly.
Everyone listening to Aria’s song gasped, clutching their chests.
Her song became a sweet poison, greedily gnawing away at their hearts.
“Come!”
Her voice, now thick and clouded, seized their ankles and dragged them down.
Into a swamp of ruin,
A swamp of death,
A swamp of hell.
As Aria’s ragged breathing intensified, the sound spread violently.
“I have been waiting for you!”
It was no longer a song, but a scream.
She pleaded with the god who had abandoned her, cursed him, despaired, clung again—
And in the end, as everything collapsed, she let it all go—
“Come and close my eyes.”
If there was no god, then let a demon take her instead.
“Ghk—!”
The Emperor dropped to his knees, gasping.
It felt as though his heart was being crushed.
As if someone were strangling him, his veins bulged, heat rushing to his eyes.
“Blessed rest—come!”
At last, the song ended.
The ritual to summon a demon came to a close.
“Haa… haa…”
The Emperor panted heavily, like someone who had just emerged from drowning in a swamp.
His hands and feet trembled uncontrollably.
Cold sweat drenched his entire body.
‘Wh-what… was that…?’
As he looked around, most people had collapsed unconscious.
Some of the knights, with vacant eyes, were drawing their swords, attempting to cut themselves.
A chill ran down the Emperor’s spine.
If he had been holding a sword, he too might have taken his own life under that unbearable agony.
“Y-you…”
The fear born from overwhelming power quickly turned into rage.
“How dare you…!”
He would no longer show mercy just because she was the last Siren on this land.
“You repay the life I saved you from the stake with betrayal?”
The Emperor muttered darkly.
A Siren only needed to sing.
“That ends today. I will break your will, no matter what. You will obey me.”
Snatching a knight’s sword, he strode forward without hesitation.
A dark shadow fell over her.
A bird that had lived its entire life trapped in a cage would only find freedom in death.
Aria slowly closed her eyes.
‘Sweet death… blessed rest…’
Just then—
The Emperor’s chamber doors opened smoothly, without resistance.
“You call quite earnestly.”
Aria slowly lifted her head.
Her gaze met a pair of ashen eyes.
Eyes hollow and empty.
‘Grand Duke Valentine…’
The man rumored to have sold his soul to a demon.
A man who should not be here was walking in.
Bringing death with him.
With each step he took, crimson footprints stained the white marble floor.
‘He really came.’
Aria could hardly believe it.
The Grand Duke lightly flicked his blood-soaked sword.
As he moved it, the blood traced graceful arcs in the air before splattering onto the ground.
“If you now seek salvation from a demon…”
Beyond the wide-open doors, the blood-soaked imperial palace lay silent like a grave.
As though it had always been that way.
“Then I should grant it.”
The demon killed the Emperor.
“Blessed rest has arrived.”
He spoke indifferently.
Then, taking the key from the Emperor’s body, he walked toward Aria.
He inserted it into the firmly locked cage—
Creak—
The cage slowly opened.
Standing beneath the chandelier, the demon shimmered with countless colors of light.
As the glow fell over his face, his eyes, which had looked like mere ashes, now shone like moonlight.
‘A light that guides even through darkness.’
For the first time, Aria realized that human eyes could be this beautiful.
“The cage is open. Fly wherever you wish.”
It was—
A memory of salvation she would never forget, even in death.
Aria stared blankly at her freed ankles.
Then she lifted her head.
‘Grand Duke Valentine…’
A traitor who killed the Emperor.
Yet—
My savior.
The cage door stood wide open.
As if she could soar away at any moment, if only she had wings.
But—
“I can’t go anywhere.”
Aria smiled bitterly as tears fell.
Because she would soon die.
‘Just kill me.’
She opened her mouth to speak her final words—
But suddenly, a pain like her vocal cords being shredded by blades tore through her.
Her vision went white, as though all the blood in her body surged at once.
“Already a bird with broken wings.”
The Grand Duke’s languid gaze briefly passed over her twisted legs before turning away.
“I’ve heard that those who listen to a Siren’s song go mad.”
Aria’s body slowly collapsed.
Her consciousness faded, and her trembling body stiffened.
The Grand Duke lifted her into his arms and said,
“Then it won’t matter to me. I was already mad to begin with.”
“……”
“If there’s a limit to madness, prove it to me.”
If you have something to say, whisper it in my ear.
The demon smirked faintly as he walked off.
Held in the demon’s arms, Aria quietly closed her eyes.
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