Another Life, Another Me

9. Revenge

"Clara! Clara!"

"Ugly, wake up."

Noo! Let me sleep some more! I'm too tired for this...WAIT! 

Clara?! 

Ugly?! 

Clara my past life's name...and the only person who calls me "ugly" is...

I quickly opened my eyes and saw two gods in front of me. 

"Shai and Gadia?! WOW! It's been so long since I saw you two!!" I was honestly really excited to see them again. 

"Welcome back to the gods' world, Clara. Did you have fun?" Shai asked in his signature bright smile.

"Yeah! This world is so much fun! I am actually having a lot of fun," I said excitedly.

"Humph. There would be no reason to send you here if you didn't die from that old hag's poison! Seriously, you need to learn some caution!" Gadia said angrily. 

Wait...I died?!

"Did I die? That's not possible...the tea my mother gave me wasn't poisoned! I confirmed that she drank the tea too! My teacup couldn't have been poisoned either-I'm smart enough to check for things like that," I said quickly. 

How in the world could I have been poisoned?!

"This is why you are an idiot. You may be smart, but you don't have good instinct. Being near that woman is equivalent to death," Gadia grumpily said. 

It didn't seem that he was mad at me, but rather, Gadia seemed to be mad at Amelia since she poisoned me.

"Your tea and teacup weren't poisoned. You never learned what Amelia's magic power was, right? Her magic is space magic. So while you were drinking your tea, your mother teleported some poison directly into your body," Shai explained. 

"Things like this could have been avoided if you had a big enough brain to bring a guard with you! They have magic nullification amulets! Also, her magic only affects things 10 feet away from her, so you could have lived if you didn't come close to the lady," Gadia yelled.

"Yes...she made it seem that the maid, who poured the tea, poisoned you. But in reality, she was the true culprit," Shai said sadly.

My mother had space magic? I had no idea.

I died before I even made it to Greenwood Academy. 

I failed...

"So what happened to my mother after she poisoned me?" I managed to choke out. I hope that she was caught or executed.

"Nothing! Because the stupid investigators couldn't find any evidence against your mother, your mother was declared innocent. Your dragon died after you did too," said Gadia.  

Did Ace die too? Did that woman kill Ace? As I heard these words, my mind went blank with fury. 

I felt so powerless right now and it was so frustrating. 

"Ugly, that woman didn't kill your dragon. As part of your contract, you supply mana to your dragon in order for it to survive. If you die, your mana supply will be cut off from it and it will die," Gadia said in a matter-of-fact tone.

Huh?

...Ace will die if I die?

Why was I never told this? 

I felt my stomach drop and my throat turn dry. I was a little dizzy.

My mother, Amelia, didn't only kill me, but she killed Ace too.