No! You Are Not the Chosen One!

"I do not even know how to put it... my reaction to finding out was even more shocked than yours, Your Excellency..."

Ansu wore a miserable expression, acting nervous while secretly observing Celia's reaction.

His appearance, looking like a pitiful stray puppy, immediately made Celia's heart soften significantly.

She let out a long sigh and gave Ansu a reproachful look. "Why did you not inform me of such a thing immediately? Did I not say..."

Ansu said helplessly, "Would that not be seeking death? Your Excellency, not everyone can tell others a secret that involves their life."

He looked up at Celia's eyes, appearing somewhat tense and lingeringly fearful.

"But I am not just anyone!" Celia said angrily.

"That is why I told you... it was just a little late," Ansu said with a sheepish smile.

"After all, you also said that no matter what happens, I must tell you and not act on my own. I value my promises very much..."

Celia froze for a moment.

Then, a hint of a smile finally appeared on the corners of her mouth after a long time.

Although she still had various doubts and anger, she was willing to listen to Ansu's account calmly.

"It is said that Freya is the one who receives divine revelations. Seeing how certain she was..."

"Could I really be..."

"Let us find a safe place first!" Celia glanced around and hurriedly pulled Ansu away from the quiet shaded path.

Arriving at the underground storage room that looked familiar to Ansu, Celia solemnly locked the door.

"Did she really say that? Are you sure you did not misunderstand?"

"Yes..." Just as Ansu was about to speak, he saw Celia turn around, her eyes already turned dark red.

【Soul Dominion - Hypnosis】

"She indeed said that..." Ansu replied with a stiff expression.

"But I do not know if I misunderstood. I thought she was joking at first... but then I found out she was actually serious..."

"No wonder she was so attentive to me from the beginning... I thought she had fallen for me. It turns out there was such a reason behind it."

Hearing Ansu say this, Celia instantly understood Freya's strange attitude toward him.

So that was it...

However... with a woman's sensitive intuition, she still felt Ansu was thinking too simply.

The Holy Maiden's behavior toward Ansu showed great respect and admiration, but besides that...

It was definitely impossible to say she had no feelings for Ansu at all.

But Celia had no time to dwell on that now. She took a deep breath and canceled the hypnosis on Ansu.

Celia knew Ansu did not like her hypnotizing him, but it was not that she did not trust him...

It was just that she had to be cautious about such matters. She needed to know the situation at the time, in case Ansu had been deceived...

After receiving confirmation, Celia's face became very unsightly.

She kept muttering to herself, her face full of worry and fear.

"What should I do? What should I do..."

"How could this be... why would such a thing happen..."

"Ansu..."

Celia stared intently at Ansu as if seeking help, wanting to hear what he had to say.

Ansu stepped forward and gently comforted her.

"It is fine."

"If I am the Chosen One of the prophecy..."

"No! You are not!" Celia said with certainty. She tightly gripped Ansu's wrist as if fearing he would suddenly disappear.

"But..."

"There are no buts! I say you are not, so you are not!" Celia gripped Ansu possessively. "That was just Freya talking nonsense!"

"And!" she continued to instruct, "Do not mention that term outside again! Do you understand?"

"Alright..." Ansu sighed.

Observing Celia, who seemed to have 'deceived herself,' he silently said:

"But the problem is always there. It will not disappear just because we ignore it. I think... we should still think of a countermeasure."

Celia lowered her eyes, falling into deep thought.

"Your Excellency, will you kill me?" Ansu asked softly.

"No, of course not!" Celia replied subconsciously.

Her expression became bitter. By now, how could she bear to kill Ansu...

If she did, what would she have to look forward to in her future life... how could she kill a man who brought her warmth and hope...

Celia, who never believed in fate, felt for the first time that fate, that malicious fellow, had played a huge joke on her.

After searching so hard for so long, the legendary Chosen One who was destined to lead the righteous god faction toward the light and also destined to eliminate evil people like them...

Was actually Ansu, the person she cared about most...

Celia smiled bitterly. She would rather believe that the Holy Maiden of the Church had lost her mind or fallen in love with Ansu, so she was misinterpreting the 【divine decree】 to stay by his side...

Wait...

Freya?

Celia seemed to catch the main point all at once. She became excited and quickly said to Ansu:

"Since she is misinterpreting it, would it not be fine if we just killed her!"

"Kill her, yes! Kill the Holy Maiden of the Church!"

Celia's eyes were already full of killing intent. She said coldly, "I do not care if what she said is true or false. As long as we silence her, no one will suspect your identity anymore!"

"That will not do!" Ansu immediately shook his head. "We absolutely cannot kill Freya."

"Ansu..." Celia looked at him in surprise, puzzled. "What do you mean by this?"

In the past, she would have been very jealous, thinking Ansu could not bear to part with Freya and did not want her to be hurt...

But in this situation! How could Ansu still be thinking about that? Celia stared at Ansu's serious gaze and instinctively felt he had some concerns.

"Freya came to Benalu City specifically to find the Chosen One. Everyone in the Church knows this and has even provided a lot of help for her search."

Ansu pretended to think for a moment and showed a disapproving, cautious expression toward Celia.

"In the matter of searching for the Chosen One, Freya, as the one who receives divine revelations, has a lot of discretionary power. If you act rashly, won't I be directly exposed?"

"It is well known..." Ansu continued to deduce, "that Freya and I have a good relationship and are often inseparable at school..."

"If you kill her and take me away, I am afraid many people will instinctively guess my identity... Paul and Leonard are both smart people, and Samantha, who values the Chosen One the most, is certainly no fool. In that case, the news that Ansu is the Chosen One will probably spread quickly! At that time..."

Ansu showed a worried gaze. "Not only will you face a dual pursuit from the Church and Samantha, but the entire world, all the righteous god faction and evil god faction, will be instantly stirred up! Countless people will want to find me, and countless people will want to kill me!"

He looked at Celia and said, "Your Excellency, are you going to go against the whole world for my sake?"

Celia was about to say yes immediately.

But in the next second, looking at Ansu's disapproving expression, she sighed helplessly...

What Ansu said made a lot of sense. Even if she was quite confident in her own strength, they were only two people after all...

Furthermore, the result of the entire world discovering Ansu was the Chosen One... she did not want that to happen at all.

If Ansu truly was the Chosen One, would he still follow her? If he was taken away by others, returned to the side of those devout believers, and was worshipped by them, what should she do...

Celia thought of her identity as a cultist and her evil, filthy forbidden magic power...

Light was destined not to return to the embrace of darkness.

And Ansu was destined not to belong to her...

Celia lowered her head with a heavy heart. In those lowered eyes that Ansu could not see...

They had already become gloomy and distorted to the extreme.