I will strive beyond this cursed bloodline!

Chapter 53: [Catherine] - I'm sorry

She felt dirty.

She had enjoyed the day with Eli-Eli as much as possible, but... That poor girl...Rossie it was?

She had done to her things she didn't want to do...Even if she needed to be sure...No...That was just her mind trying to justify her deeds...Her hideous, disgusting, and terrible deeds.

What was the difference between her and those crazy gods now?

What was the difference between her and their crazy acolytes?

Kings and mages summoning young foolish kids and then branding their [Soul] with their hideous mark...Or in the worst case scenario... Kidnapping souls before they went into the circle of transmigration...

Sometimes they didn't even care to look for victims that would like to do their bidding and just branded their [Souls] so they would do their work, and she...Had done something similar to them.

She knew very well that kind of Magic, she had studied it in the other world...[Aetheria] that forsaken place she had ended summoned as a ten-year-old girl.

And the same place that had branded her [Soul] so she would listen to the whims of a 15-year-old brat...She had lived in that world as nothing more than a drooling girl that listened to the whims of someone barely old enough to qualify as a grown-up..... And she hated with every fiber of her body those memories. The things that...[Hero] made her do. How he made a sport of finding new ways to abuse her and her healing magic.

The only good thing about that was when he finally managed to break her [Soul] and used the control over her brand to force her to [Restore] her [Soul] back to [Normal].

She still relished the memory of how he ordered "Restore yourself to normal" he said, and oh did she restore herself to normal... One of her favorite memories was of that day.

She [Healed] herself and then turned grabbed the very same [Brand] they had put in him and twisted it till he was nothing more than the remainings of a man with the intelligence of a slug. An improvement if she was being honest.

That did get her branded as [Demon] in the eyes of the church...But she didn't care. She went on a rampage burning their kingdoms, pillaging their libraries, learning their twisted [Mind] and [Soul] magic to be sure no foreign vestiges of that repulsive magic were in her.

Then using those same bits of knowledge to twist her [Soul] into something that would allow her to escape that place no matter the cost.

And even after all of that...After turning that cursed world into a mere mana source for her and the world around her...

She had used the same magic on that girl...Granted she had a reason...

HAH!

A reason...A motive...An excuse...

"We all have excuses..." Said Catherine to herself, she was in her living room thinking about her choices and looking at the papers on her coffee table.

There were two folders in there, one had the picture of a black-haired girl, with a normal upbringing, no red flags in her environment, no known association with criminal organizations or cults... Quite the average girl if one was to be honest. She awakened her magic at 12 on her birthday and her first release of magic made the cake cut itself and fly to all the attendees.

An honest and caring girl.

The second folder on the other hand held way less information and a picture of a scrawny pink-haired girl with dead eyes looking at the camera.

Rossaline Singh, previously Rossaline Williams...Previously Rossaline Smith...Rossaline White...Harriss...The list went on and on...Until she got adopted by the Singh family.