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Hearing her words, Death gritted his teeth and took a step back, while Life looked at the ground as she held tears back.
Before, Archie only knew that they were really high up, but now that the platform was being lowered, he understood where they were.
“Eclipse. Put him into place.” She asked before tapping on a crystal that floated in front of her.
Suddenly, all the crystals throughout the city shone before showing the image of Greed’s face on it.
Huge crystals flew into the air and did the exact same thing, and before they knew it, the platform had reached its designated area.
They were floating above the center of the city.
“Hail Greed! Hail Greed! Hail Greed!” The crowds suddenly began to let out a synchronized chant. Not a single person was offbeat, and right now, almost everyone in the city was watching.
Eclipse quickly stepped forward and grabbed Archie by the neck before placing him beside Greed’s feet, forcing him to stare directly at the ground before connecting his cuffs behind his back.
“Greetings citizens of darkless!” She shouted, causing everyone in the city to immediately stop chanting.
“Today, a traitor lays before you with his head to the ground and his arms behind his back!” She announced while pointing at Archie. A collecting gasp went through the crowd before the sound of mutters washed over them. However, they immediately stopped the moment Greed opened her mouth again.
“He not only betrayed the city and its people, but he betrayed me, and the trust I had in him.” She raised her hand toward her eyes and wiped a single teardrop.
“After seeing me become the new commander, he tried to kill me… He wanted to kill me because he was jealous that I got the seat and he didn’t. H-H-He was my best friend!” She began balling her eyes out, and at the same time, a wave of killing intent suddenly poured out of the crowd and was pointed at Archie.
“Off with his head! Off with his head! Off with his head!” They collectively shouted before a disturbing smirk perked up the corner of Greed’s lips.
“You think I should kill him?” She asked with more joy than sadness, yet the crowd was already too blind to see it.
“Off with his head! Off with his head! Off with his head!”
“Okay… Then, who’s better to do the job than the new Judgement himself!”
Turning around, she looked eyes at Silas, yet his eyes remained dead despite clearly looking at her.
At first, she was worried that maybe Silas was acting like he was compromised so he wouldn’t be singled out. However, after looking at him through Archie’s mask, she quickly understood that her fears were for naught.
After all, his eyes were pulsing just like everyone else’s. Sure, her eyes and ears hadn’t heard anything about him in a while, but Eclipse found him pretty easily so it was probably fine.
Taking a step toward Silas, she looked him in the eyes and gently grabbed his face.
“Make me proud.” She smiled at him the same way one would smile at a pet.
“Yes… Madam.” Silas replied without any tone in his voice. He sounded almost robotic.
Walking away from her, Silas grabbed one of the two axes on his back and stepped beside Archie.
Archie, on the other hand, tried to look into Silas’ eyes one more time, however, Eclipse, who was still in his young form, grabbed his face and slammed it into the ground.
‘When did he get those?’ Greed could not help but tilt her head slightly, but after seeing how well-forged the axe was, she felt a tinge of excitement run through her like a lightning bolt.
‘You’re becoming stronger at such a fast pace.’
“Any final words?” Greed appeared next to Archie in the blink of an eye and asked.
‘This is it…” Archie thought.
Everything he had worked for… Everything he did…
From the moment Aleck had taken him in to become the Architect, he had dedicated his life to making the organization better.
He didn’t make connections without thinking about it in the long term. He didn’t do an action without thinking of its consequences for the organization.
All he thought about was darkless, and for the rest of his life, that would have most likely remained his main goal.
However, that all changed the moment he met Love Sinclair, also known as Life…
But she wasn’t Life back then. She was just a random girl who was slightly older than him.
At first, he tried to ignore it, but eventually at a certain point, he accepted it. He accepted that he had fallen in love… With Love.
Back then, he was a broken man. He had nothing to live for other than work, and at that point, he had been the Architect for almost five years.
She changed that. She changed his goals and made him into a better man. He didn’t know why he had fallen for her, but in the end, his love for her was toxic.
He loved her more than anything on Gilea but at the same time, he didn’t want to lose her so he manipulated her.
He knew that at some point along their journeys, she had fallen in love with him as well, and so he took advantage of it. By manipulating her, he thought that he could keep her safe from the truth, and at the same time, by keeping her at an arm’s distance at all times, he thought he could keep her safe… From himself.
But in the end, his love for her was his downfall.
It made him blind to what was happening.
And so, when she betrayed him in front of his very eyes, he felt like his heart had collapsed into itself.
And now… Now she was standing there, doing nothing as he was about to be executed.
“Final words?” He repeated her words before chuckling.
“Nah… I’m done with this world.” He smiled.
“Very well.” Greed turned to Silas and smiled once more.
Appearing beside him, she leaned in and whispered- “Off with his head.”
Archie turned his head to the right, but this time Eclipse didn’t stop him.
His eyes locked with Life’s for a moment before a smile blossomed on his face.
And with that smile, he mouthed the following words.
‘I love you…’
Silas’ axe tore through the air in an instant, slashing toward Archie’s neck, however, in the last moment, something happened.
*Swoosh*
A beam of golden light suddenly shot through the air and aimed for Greed’s head.
“Hmm?” Looking to the side, Greed flicked her wrist and swatted the beam to the side nonchalantly, however, when she saw who had shot at her, she could not help but let out a smile.
Yet, this one didn’t reach her eyes.
“You stupid bitch-!!!” Her eyes suddenly widened as the threat of death loomed over her head, and before she could even react to what was happening, the sound of wind being torn apart reverberated in her ear before an axe ripped into her throat.
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