Infinite Evolution System Made Me Too OP!

Chapter 389: Getting One Over On You...

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Aphrodite's otherworldly form started to spasm and release unknown waves of pink and white, causing the world to feel a powerful pressure. A pressure that contained within it all the soul-wrenching pain the Goddess of Love had kept bottled up since time immemorial.

Her big, beautiful pink eyes softened as she ignored her own body. "It looks like my time, too, is up," she said as she went back to running her hands through Azmodeus's fluffy hair. "Some part inside me hoped that you would wake up and we would ride our way to eternity... together..."

"But the main part of me knows that is not possible," she murmured as she took her husband's head off her lap and gently laid it down on the flowing green grass.

As parts of Aphrodite's immaculate figure chipped off and blew into the wind, the way she looked at Azmodeus never changed.

When around 30% of her body had chipped away, she suddenly turned her head down and bit her lips. "This will be the last time," she mumbled. "The last time that I'll bother you with my presence."

The wind whistled and the moon's glow focused on the Goddess of Love's sorrowful words as she couldn't bring herself to look at the man whom she had forcefully succumbed to excruciating torture for countless millennia.

"...I always was annoying, wasn't I?" She suddenly said in a tearful voice. "Every version of myself was always in your way... They cared not for what they lacked or what their presence meant for your aspirations..."

"I've always just wanted to be closer to you..."

"...Was that so much to ask...? To want to return to the way that things once were..."

"To return to him...?"

Drip, Drop. Drip, Drop.

Dark stormy clouds formed in the previously clear skies as an onslaught of rain beat down on a pitiful girl that had already been beaten down to the dirt for her entire life.

Azmodeus was her salvation. He was her escape from her terrible, controlled life in a birdcage.

And yet even he, too, left her...

CRACK—

"This time... I got one over on you..."

As the last of her body cracked and fluttered into the wind, Aphrodite made sure that her joyous smile and tear-stained face were the last thing she ever showed in front of her husband.

"I hope you find your happiness... away from me," she said in despair.

"...This is my final goodbye..."

Aphrodite's saddeningly fake smile was the last thing to vanish into the wind as her entire existence faded into oblivion.

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A few minutes after Aphrodite's final departure.

"Humu...?"

Azmodeus slowly opened his drowsy eyes and leaned up from the grass. He immediately felt that something was not right, but he was unable to pinpoint what exactly that something was.

"Why don't I remember how I got here?" He asked himself in confusion. "And why do I feel like I was here with someone, or multiple people, but I can't remember who they were...?"

There were so many unexplainable questions, but no one left to answer them...

After a few seconds of getting nowhere in his brooding, Azmodeus shook his head to clear his mind. He then rose from the ground and refocused on his goals.

First and foremost, he needed to make his way back to the Omega Dome and take up a long-term mission that would bring him to one of the neighboring nations. As a 3rd Generation Knight Apprentice, he had every right to request this.

If possible, though, Azmodeus hoped he could receive a mission that kept him away from the Omega Knights. If it were all possible, he would prefer to tell them that he wished to 'prove himself by himself' and go in as a lone wolf.

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