The Obsessed Mage and His Beloved Statue Bride: She Cannot Resist His Seductive Voice by Crane

Author:Crane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: light novel
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Published: 2024-09-23T00:00:00+00:00

“That sounds like her, all right. If they were my parents, I would have killed them.”

“Yes, I’m sure you would have.” Alistair really had killed his parents, after all. But Lara was different. “She was afraid for her life. Stone was the first thing that came to her young mind. And so the earth faeries took pity on her and granted her humble wish.”

After the chair shattered, her father and stepmother were so unnerved that they carried the little statue deep into a forest and left her there. It wasn’t long afterward that Lutfel began receiving reports of a magically gifted girl wandering the woods. Any time something neared her, be it monster or human, she petrified herself in an effort to keep safe. Sure enough, Lara was so frightened of Lutfel when he arrived at the scene that she immediately turned to stone, giving him quite the shock.

“Only a mage who had the favor of the earth faeries could pull off something like that. I’d never heard of anything like it. To be perfectly honest, I’d thought it was bullshit until I saw it for myself,” he continued with a grin.

Alistair thought back to Lara’s dark brown eyes—proof of her affinity with the element of earth. Alas, he could only remember them now, for the statue’s eyes were closed.

“Fairly tame, I suppose, compared to a certain other child who peppered me with fire bullets when we first met…”

“Sorry, but we’re very different people,” Alistair answered flatly.

Lutfel’s grin widened. “That’s why I originally asked her to be your mentor. I knew that if anything went sideways, she’d be able to protect herself.”

“I see.”

No wonder she had never seemed to fear him—she had been confident that he couldn’t kill her right from the onset.

“Disappointed?”

“No. I get it.”

When he stopped to think about everything she had given him, he felt nothing but gratitude, even if she had only reached out to him from a position of safety. Lara had loved him more than she had loved herself—so much so that she had sacrificed her life for his.

“Look, kid… You’re a monster,” Lutfel said after a moment. His tone suggested he knew Alistair possessed some level of self-awareness.

Alistair paused. “I know,” he said.

“That’s why I entrusted you to a woman like her—someone who was practically the embodiment of love and compassion. I didn’t want you to come to hate us all.”

And lo and behold, the plan had worked. Despite everything he’d gone through, the boy had yet to entirely give up on the human race.

“Lara’s a bit abnormal herself, y’know,” Lutfel continued, shrugging.

Alistair’s gaze hardened. His normally high tolerance for disparaging comments was all but nonexistent where Lara was concerned.

“C’mon, you know I’m right! She should have turned into a snotty brat, like you, after growing up in that environment!” Indeed, her childhood hadn’t been much different from Alistair’s. “Instead, she stayed purehearted. I’ve always thought it a miracle.”

Lara was good-natured to the point of stupidity—but it was because of her that Alistair never fully succumbed to despair.

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