All of them shook their heads. After all, Zara had taken them by surprise. She didn’t even give anyone a heads-up before dropping such a bomb.
The clock was ticking and as much as Diamond didn’t want to spoil their mood and make the gloomy tension even worse, she still found herself taking a deep breath, ready to be merciless.
Looking at the sleeping Zara, she inwardly apologized, ’You might not want this but to have what you want, a bit of threatening might work,’ before looking at Zara’s beloved people in her life and revealed, "She is going to die!" her words very direct, it made all of them stagger.
"W-what did you just say?" Lena felt like she was dreaming. Otherwise, how could her ears hear such crazy things?
Diamond looked coldly at everyone in the room and repeated, "Zara didn’t want you to know but if we don’t find the damn book in these eight days then this time for real, you will be holding her funeral," each word of hers stabbing their hearts.
"You are _" Lena was about to say something, but Diamond cut her off.
"I don’t care about your thoughts right now. Get that wedding prepared. It doesn’t need to be extravagant. As long as it’s one and oh ... better do it in Rozinya. She will be happy over there. After all, her deity will be watching her!" Diamond stated as her gaze landed on a confused Amir, "and oh, dear groom, you don’t have much time to prepare for the wedding. You better get out of your stupor and start moving!"
After saying that, Diamond carried the sleeping Zara to her villa, where several servants once again started taking care of her.
As for the reactions of those who remained, honestly, she didn’t care. As long as she helped Zara get what she wanted, then she would be at ease.
She didn’t have a choice as well. As much as she didn’t want to see Zara getting married hastily just because she had a chance of dying, this time she didn’t know what to do.
Her system might be omnipotent, but she can’t defy the natural order of things. She must wait patiently for the seventh day to get the answer. Which would be a day before the deadline.
Rather than waiting for the prediction skill to give her the answers, all she could do now was pray earnestly to her nameless deity to give her strength and power to be able to aid Zara.
As she brushed the white hair gently, Diamond earnestly prayed, hoped and vowed that if she got what she wanted, she was going to devote her entire life plus her family in the future to serve the bird deity that gave her all this.
She just didn’t want to see Zara dying on her watch. And she hoped that the deity, no, the deities, also thought like that as well.
After putting her to bed, Diamond left the villa and found everyone waiting for her, their eyes murderous, as if ready to kill her.
She understood that she was a bit hasty when she said what she said, but that couldn’t be helped.
To help Zara get her wish, she was willing to become a villain. It’s not like it was the first time that she had become one.
So, when she found everyone waiting for her, she knew what they wanted; answers.
And answers she was going to do her best to provide.
After all, how could she not reveal such important news to everyone?
If they ever play hooky and don’t search for the book seriously, then the guilt of not helping Zara live will eat them for the rest of their lives.
Why should Zara suffer alone when there are so many people who would seriously help her?
"So, what do you want to know?"
Thinking about how fate was cruel, Diamond felt like a true villain, wishing to incur pain on everyone, and Zara’s family happen to be her target.
"Is she really going to die?"
Diamond didn’t look at the person who asked the question in particular but looked at Zara’s parents.
"Yes, she is going to die. This is not a joking matter. If we don’t find that damn book in the remaining days, then you need to start preparing for the funeral.
The book is the final straw, the one that is connecting all of this. Without it, the ritual can’t be performed. Without the ritual, then only death awaits," she coldly explained, and without giving them a chance to retort, added, "since the book is very hard to get right now, we have a few options. Continue to search with everything that we have, and prepare for the wedding.
If we find the book, then thank goodness, Zara will live, but if not, at least let her die with her wish fulfilled. You wouldn’t want her to remain lingering in the world simply because she didn’t marry the man she loved, right?
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