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Let's just say this chapter will probably surprise a lot of you, and it will answer a lot of questions. So be ready.

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Comments

NovaPulse

Huh, well that certainly answers a couple questions, but now I’m curious as to how that curse even works? Like, what happens after the ten minutes they’re allowed to see her for? Do they just get teleported away or something?

Wargen

The question is: Is it the curse that makes Aria this dense? Or just a family trait?

sjmcc13

She is probably assuming it is ancient history, not recent.

GetZ3rged

That's what I was thinking but then again that friend visited the emperor so whos to say he was told to tell that story to aria and it's not even real. Im not even sure the curse is real at all as aria didn't have that true immortality until the system initiated on her planet so something from pestilence could've killed her.

InsaneSam

Maybe they simply lose the ability to perceive her? Can't see hear touch or even divine her perhaps?

Draxas

This reason does make the separation more palatable, but it still leaves a lot of unanswered questions. Plus a lot of the things said in my comment on the last chapter are still viable

InsaneSam

Yeah, with how old people can be as well as her own already warped perception of time I can understand that, though this is like, serious levels of dense no matter what.

WolfWrites

You realize she's seen her parents corpses, right? Why on earth would she assume anything close to the Crimson Empire's rulers being her parents? Don't judge characters based on things they don't know but you do.

Wargen

I TOTALLY FORGOT SHE SAW THEM DIE I am reading too many stories and I thought her family like "died in the house fire" died. My brain dumb

WolfWrites

The curse was mentioned in the epilogue of book 2 by the Crimson Empire's emperor. And she's been a true immortal since she was born.

Winter

Thanks for the Chapter

Briar Rosier

She has always had true immortality. The system just named it and gave her her class based on it, like it does with all other abilities.

Marvin bennett

Wonder if the curse is the reason she's immortal

WolfWrites

The reason she's immortal is her ability.

Endoles

I didn't expect this. Nice surprise. Mhm. Who even knows that aria is the princess of the crimson empire ? Probably only her family and Leopold. The others are maybe only guessing the connection.

Captain2003Rex

On a completely and definitely unrelated note, I can’t help but once again think that the Mage Queen (I forgot her name) really was more than a little too hasty to immediately vow her eternal animosity and antagonism towards Aria before she actually had the facts available about the new Horseman lol. After all, who should be better suited to (eventually) finally reap the souls of the Riders, if not for the very incarnation of Death herself? Hmm?

Tyler MachadoDarth Bane

Ok I know an even simpler way to get rid of the curse. Ask pestilence to help again, but this time twist the curse so it harms her. With it actively harming her, at worst, she goes through years of torture, then it is gone. Better than waiting millenia.

Michael Zinkstein

Poor Aria. And Lucky Aria, cause she doesn’t know. The Horseman doesn’t seem to know either. War is War, more Reason to fight. Pestilence would just keep her as guina pig. Infamy would just starve her for eternity. On the other Side, when she gets strong enough, she could stop the progress for the other 3 permanently too. Just a question of ethics and endurance. And thanks for the chapter

Patrizia

I'm not so sure that the other riders don't know anything. I re-read the epilogue of book 2 and the way famine talks about aria makes me think that he at least suspects something if not outright knows.

Lijwent

How much of her ability did her family know at her birth? Did they know she was immortal ? If they knew the curse must have some pretty powerful consequences for her ability not to work against it (or she'll need more level against it, like the poison from pestilence)

WolfWrites

The emperor in this chapter explained why her ability isn't clearing it up faster. Reread the chapter to find out. And yes, her family knows about her ability because of analyzers.

WolfWrites

For one, she's not a queen. For two, she'd rather die than work with a Horseman regardless of whether or not that Horseman can help her.

Lynderup

Didn't she remember her brother's ability to clone anything or have remembered wrong? But it also seems pretty reasonable to deny any idea that could give false hope.

WolfWrites

Why would she randomly assume that her parents were clones all her life? Especially with how powerful they were.

Lijwent

I mean when the curse triggers (like after the 10min) The emperor only says it's impossible for them to be more than 10min

WolfWrites

It doesn't affect Aria directly nor does it cause her damage. As the emperor said.

Aeonstorm

At least we have an answer for Aria’s situation with her family. I’m curious as to what the curse aria has will do if it activates? Since Aria would recover from whatever affects it has and probably purge it if it activated its mostly her family would be more affected by it.

Lijwent

So I guess we'll know at some point what's so problematic with it, because so far there doesn't seem to be anything that would force them appart after the 10min

Aeonstorm

Was it mentioned when she did the vow because I got the impression she did way before Aria was even born?

Briar Rosier

Except pestilence would then know she’s part of crimson empire royalty. And that would be badTM. (And he wouldn’t do it for that reason, so would just end up a worse situation than before)

Memhotep

Oh we got some DEEP lore this time!! I love it- but also it's incredibly sad... I can't wait for them to eventually reunite. I'm also curious about what exactly Shirou did to spark that conflict. I could be wrong, but I'm vaguely anticipating some future direct combat between Aria and the other horsemen.

meir

😂😂 its so funny how she is so clueless