Magical Journey: The Other Shore Blooms on the Other Shore

Chapter 225 [The Fool] Flower (Thread) Witch Angela 5

For the sake of one possibility, the possibility of ending it all, it's worth risking everything.

If you win the bet, the nightmare ends, and Beatrice's prophesied future will be rewritten. If you lose the bet, the nightmare also ends; at least you'll stop dreaming when you're dead.

But before the bet can be made, chips need to be placed on the table, and now, Angela is creating such chips.

She needs three things: a suitable vessel, a powder keg that can detonate everything, and a barrier that can contain the power.

This vessel needs to be qualified to delve into the core area of ​​the rift, activate the sealing magic by detonating that incredible energy, and finally have the means to contain the dissipated power.

Indispensable.

Without a suitable carrier, energy alone cannot deeply repair the cracks.

Without that immense power, even if you delve deeper, you'll be helpless against the rift.

Without a final resolution, that uncontrollable force is enough to tear this world apart.

The rift was sealed, but it created another thing that could destroy the world.

Angela named these three things: medium, catalyst, and reins.

She spent most of her life studying media—for which she conducted countless inhumane experiments. The world may only know Slater, the madman who researched magic, but they overlook another, even more insane individual.

Her current deputy, Anna, is a product of the experiment. No one would have imagined that the little Snow Guard, ranked second only to Audrey, had such a complicated history.

Anna was an abandoned child who was taken in by Angela to the laboratory. Perhaps because her experimental experience was very similar to that of Qin, Anna was the first passable medium that Angela's experiments produced.

As for those who were experimented with at the same time as Anna, most of them were buried in the snow and no one cared.

But Angela was never satisfied with Anna—although Anna possessed unparalleled magical skills, she lacked truly strong resistance to the magic escaping from the rift.

She was merely outstanding within the entire Kingdom of Beatrice; one could say there was no one more outstanding than her.

But not enough.

It's like taking a test. The passing standard is 95 points. Even if you get 85 points, which is a huge lead over those who can't even pass, you still haven't met the standard. This fact won't change no matter how well you compete with others in the same category.

Anna's failed experiment led Angela to gradually change her approach.

She poured so much effort into giving Anna that unparalleled resistance, doing everything to the best of her ability, yet it still fell far short of her ideal.

This should be the limit of human capability.

Aside from the elusive element of luck, Anna was probably the best result she could have achieved.

People have limits.

So, if this isn't human, what can compare to a demon in terms of resistance to the magic escaping from the rift? Could a person possessed by a demon possibly reach the limits that humans cannot achieve?

Therefore, Angela set her sights on Qin's mother, the elegant and beautiful woman, who was also one of the Snow Guards, Alexia.

It's impossible for an ordinary person to coexist with a demon; they will either be devoured by the demon or destroy it. Only by modifying the genes of a normal person can this be possible.

Alexia, known as the "petri dish," provided such conditions. How could a normal baby withstand Angela's insanely conceived experiments?

The birth of the zither was inevitable.

His abandonment was inevitable, deliberately orchestrated by Angela; she needed time to observe whether he matched her expectations. Even if Jean possessed magical talent, Angela would find other ways to make Alexia abandon him. In Beatrice, kinship was such an unnecessary thing.

It was inevitable that he would be picked up by Slater. Slater and she had collaborated on experiments countless times. Although Slater himself might not have been clear about Angela's true intentions, it didn't stop him from carrying out the experiment.

The experiment on the piano was both a success and a failure.

Slater wanted Jean to be the first ordinary person to be able to cast spells without using magic.

Angela wanted the harp to become a vessel that could contain demons.

In both of these aspects, Slater's expectations were completely not met, and Jean became his discarded pawn.

Angela's expectations were met. But unfortunately, it was still far from her ideal state—the power was out of control.

If this vessel is out of control, it is meaningless, and in the end, the experimental subject will become a real demon, which contradicts the original plan. Therefore, Angela hopes to find a rein that can interfere with this power.

Angela originally pinned her hopes on Alice, but a living Alice wasn't enough.

Even the dead Alice wasn't enough.

This so-called rein will only drive the other party even crazier.

This left Angela feeling lost, so she simply let Qin roam freely. Eventually, however, she found the reins she was looking for.

If the experiment proves to be successful, then it's time to introduce the final plan.

"How does it feel to be home?" Angela asked the person behind her, who had a normal expression, while lying in her mechanical wheelchair with her eyes closed.

Audrey's teleportation magic traversed tens of thousands of miles in an instant. Returning to Beatrice from Roberta felt like nothing more than a dream.

“I don’t like this place,” Qin replied.

“I don’t like it either,” Angela chuckled. “Nobody here likes it. Welcome back to hell, whether you like it or not.”

"What exactly do you want me to do?" Qin asked.

"Don't worry, you'll find out soon," Angela said.

The catalyst…she was ready. In fact, the material had been there from the beginning—what could be more suitable as a catalyst than herself?

Perhaps this was all arranged by the Flower Witch who had been dead for nearly a thousand years. Even after lying in her coffin for so long, she still manipulated the stage play a thousand years later, just like the world's greatest puppeteer.

“Before that, you can go see your mother; she’s waiting for you,” Angela said.

"She had long ago..."

"Don't you really want to see her?" Angela said. "After all, you can tell her you're doing great out there, making that nasty woman feel guilty or something. Haha, just kidding, I know you won't laugh. Go if you want, or you won't have another chance."

The worst people always laugh and say it's none of their business. She is the biggest culprit. Slater, or Jean's mother Alexia, or even the other Beatrice residents who brought Jean suffering, are all just accomplices.

She has committed heinous acts that would warrant her death hundreds of times over.

Yet they also do good deeds that others wouldn't.

How can good and bad be explained in just a few words?