Until Scarlett Jennings and her companions had been sent off, Ivan stood firm in front of the Ghost Gate, his fox-like eyes casually glanced at the little black paperman on his shoulder, his voice lazy yet carrying an undeniable intimidation,
"Aren’t you going down?"
The little black paperman clung to his collar as if pretending not to hear, but after hesitating for two seconds, obediently jumped down from his shoulder.
The lightweight paperman landed on the ground, Ivan glanced down at it, said nothing more, and directly walked through the Ghost Gate, leaving.
...
King Yama’s Palace, in front of the desk.
Sensing Ivan’s presence vanish from the Underworld, Zaraiah slightly lowered her eyes.
"Even the little paperman can’t get close..."
It seemed like a gentle murmur, a breath also akin to a soundless sigh.
"This magic was still taught to me by you."
Simultaneously, the little black paperman made a sighing motion, in the next second, it transformed into a wisp of blue smoke.
The blue smoke floated back into the King Yama’s Palace, automatically drifting back into Zaraiah’s sleeve.
Zaraiah stood up from the desk, watching King Yama’s Palace before her, her consciousness seemingly returning to the solemn hall to the time they first met.
*
Seven thousand years ago, even earlier than Heavenly Origin.
At that time, Ivan was still Lord Yama, and she was merely a Ghost King birthed from unwilling resentment.
"I wondered where the little ghost came from, daring to kill even the Underworld’s Ghost Messenger, no wonder..."
That was when she first saw Ivan.
Long hair, white robe, graceful bearing, a character meticulously refined from head to toe, his face especially exquisite.
Yet such a person was the Lord of Underworld.
Zaraiah thought she could contend with her power as a Ghost King but didn’t expect that after just one encounter, she was directly defeated.
The finely embroidered long boots, as if casually stepped on her back, left her without any strength to resist.
He stepped on her like that, still had time to check the Book of Life and Death, and finally found her name.
"I thought so, carrying purple qi, meant to be an emperor’s fate yet substituted, despised by all, and died being skinned alive..."
Ivan uttered, not forgetting to click his tongue in sympathy, "Truly tragic."
Then, he lifted her up and lectured her,
"But however tragic, that’s no excuse for you to become a Ghost King by devouring Evil Ghosts causing chaos. And you dare kill my Ghost Messenger, who gave you the nerve?
Do you know how much effort it takes to train a useful Ghost Messenger?"
Later Zaraiah found out, the Ghost Messenger she killed, in modern terms, was a top seller.
But killed was killed, so Zaraiah asked him,
"What will you do with me? Send me to the Eighteen Hell Layers? Walk the mountain of knives? Enter the boiling oil?"
Ivan disdainfully tossed her aside, her gaze full of evil qi,
"You do need to take a trip to the Underworld, and clean off your debts of sin."
Then, she was thrown into the Oblivion River by him.
After being fished out again, he didn’t intend to incarcerate her in the Eighteen Layers, instead kept her by his side.
According to Ivan,
"You killed my most useful Ghost Messenger, so for the next century, replace him and stay in the Underworld to work for me."
He even didn’t offer her a chance to refuse.
Under Ivan’s martial suppression, Zaraiah, as a Ghost King, stayed by King Yama’s Palace handling various paperwork by day and helped him capture escaping or evil fierce ghosts and Evil Ghosts at night.
Zaraiah never stopped thinking about resistance.
But whenever she intended to play tricks, the little black paperman left to oversee her would immediately take action against her.
Destroying the little black paperman didn’t work either.


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