The Cursed King

Chapter 274  Elise Wants To Forget

Elise suddenly found her heart beating faster at the sight of the goblet. While Elise would have never wanted immortality for herself because she never really wanted to experience the grief of losing loved ones and never reuniting with them…

This time it would be different.

Elise's child would become immortal and the baby would grow up surrounded by the most powerful beings with opportunities unlike any other. Wasn't that amazing? Any parent would have sacrificed themselves for even a chance like this.

"Um… Dimitri said that you need to earn this through the competition though?" Elise pointed out. "I haven't participated so wouldn't it be unfair for me to just drink this?"

Dante silently cursed his brother for going through all the details. He couldn't wait for the chance for Elise to drink this so she could become immortal and through the passage of time, she would forget Loriel.

Why would someone keep loving a bastard like that man?

Elise recounted to him most of the things that happened and Dante was furious that this insignificant king would fail to see how remarkable Elise was. The Time Master thought It was better for Elise to have a new life.

"You don't have to worry about it," Dante told her with a bright smile. "I am one of the people overseeing the competition and I have personally judged you as worthy of it. I am also sure that the goddess of earth would be delighted to hear that her descendant would also become immortal."

"Oh… that also makes sense." Elise nodded slowly. She was feeling too sad and couldn't think properly to argue with Dante. If the god himself had deemed her worthy, why should she negate him? Elise had made herself small for so long just to make Loriel look better.

This time, she had no reason to keep thinking she was not worthy of something. Especially if this gift of immortality would help her baby to grow healthy and later she could give birth to him safely.

"One could even say that it is yours by birthright," Dante added. He would have said whatever to make her lips touch the goblet right now. And he might as well have been the goblet if anything.

Elise took a deep breath and then reached out to the hovering goblet, her fingers gently touching the object as she drew it closer to her. There was power flowing through her, magic, even as she touched it.

Anything for her child.

Just when the goblet was touching her lips, there was something in her stomach that made her hesitate, it was a painful ebb of pain at the memory of Loriel. She quickly looked at Dante once again before she actually drank from the immortality potion.

"I have another request to make if you will hear of it?" Elise asked weakly. She wiped her lips with her sleeves and gave the goblet back to Dante.

"What is it, Elise?" Dante raised a brow. Curious and also hoped that it was not related to Loriel any longer. If Elise asked him to relay the news or to send a message to Loriel then it would sour his day.

"Because you are the Time God… please tell me if this is true," Elise smiled sadly at him. "Does time truly heal all wounds? I know that I want a better life for my child and I have chosen to be immortal, but I do not think I can bear the pain I'm feeling."

"Pain?"

"I am probably weak." Elise's eyes welled up with tears. "I found myself hating another woman because of Loriel and desperately yearning for his love. Now I have chosen to leave that path behind me, but it still hurts until now. Tell me… will it get better?"

Dante cursed Elise's husband a thousand times over in the back of his mind and gently looked at her. He gently reached out for her hand and gave it a squeeze, deciding that this much was appropriate.

"The memory of the things that have hurt you will become less significant over time," Dante explained. "That is what time can do for you and becoming immortal will give you as much time as you need to heal. However, you can never truly forget about it. It will always remain."

Elise took a shaky breath. "Then is it possible to forget?"

Dante's heart stopped at Elise's words. Forget. Did she actually just say forget? If Dante was talking to another person, he would have reminded them of how important memory was.

Memory prevented an individual from making the same mistake twice.

Experience was, after all, a good teacher.

However, because it was Elise and this would completely make things different… Dante was quick to answer it. He gave her the best-relaxed expression as if this choice was irrelevant to him and spoke.

"There is a river that flows and has the ability to wipe away memories. In the past, men have once decided that they wished to take Cretea by force and topple down gods and it was this very river that removed the memory of Cretea from their minds."

"But several humans and others are ascending here to become gods?" Elise asked. Her heart was pounding at the mention of the river, but she couldn't help but ask.

"Well, they discover it again, one way or another," Dante smiled. "But if it is erasing the memory that you want, then I can obtain the waters for you and it will clear your mind of the painful things that affected you."

"Will I forget everything?" Elise asked with a bitter smile. "I want to remember my father, grandmother but I do not wish to remember Loriel anymore. I know that is weak of me, but I do not  wish to remember him anymore."

She tried to look strong, but the tears that welled up in her eyes were now slowly dripping to her cheeks. It was at this moment that Dante should have said the full truth. It erased literally every memory. That was how powerful the drink was and it was often used by those who really wanted to start anew.

The god of death was coincidentally the one who used the river more out of everyone, but right now, Dante found himself in a more difficult position. Should he tell the entire truth? Dante was But what a life they could have together, if she decided to move on and forget about her past with afraid that Elise would change her mind.

Loriel.

Dante could already imagine it.

Elise would forget her life as a human and the two of them could become a couple. Dante could have a life together with her and he didn't even mind the child because a part of it was Elise's. He could imagine raising Elise's child as his own.

"I can easily ensure that you'll remember them," Dante lied. "You can keep the memories of your father, mother, grandmother, and everyone you hold dear."

Elise bit her lip. This was exactly what she wanted. Elise only wished to keep the memory of her She wanted to forget about Loriel. She wanted to unlove him.

parents, grandmother, and her first child forever.

"Then I'd like to drink it after this immortality potion, please," Elise said.