[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-killed-me-now-i-have-your-power":3,"chapter-killed-me-now-i-have-your-power-killed-me-now-i-have-your-power-chapter-89":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Killed Me? Now I Have Your Power",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1085410,1415,"Chapter 89: Weakness Is A Sin [END]","killed-me-now-i-have-your-power-chapter-89",89,"\u003Cp>Chapter 89 – Weakness Is A Sin [END]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Indeed. A worthy heir,\" Echidna said with a small, disturbing smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A smile that made Inara want to turn and run away from this abomination of a being.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because that’s exactly what she felt, this woman... was an abomination. Something unnatural. Something that should not exist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t know how or why those feelings surged so violently inside her but they did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And yet, Inara pushed them down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, it didn’t matter if this woman was an anomaly, a danger, or a mistake in the natural order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Echidna could give her the power she needed, power to protect, power to change her fate, without endangering herself or the ones she loved...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Inara didn’t give a single damn about anything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But deep down...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She knew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s never that easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You don’t get the power to command the most unholy monsters in existence by smiling politely and asking nicely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Echidna, as if reading her thoughts, finally spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your thoughts have been correct, little one,\" she began, her voice soft, almost serene, yet echoing across the entire realm like the whisper of a mother speaking from inside a nightmare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I do need you for something. Something I cannot do myself. That is why I sought a heir. One to pass on my legacy... another me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She paused, then smiled again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A smile filled with affection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A mother’s smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was still so so wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Another me, one that can control monsters, and bring all creation to its knees... with only our children.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She tilted her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can you imagine that kind of power, little one?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it wasn’t a question. Not truly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No... you cannot. But let me teach you something, you ignorant child...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Echidna’s voice dropped as her golden eyes locked onto Inara, who could feel her nerves unraveling the longer the monster spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There is no power in this cursed life that comes without risk.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There is no power you can gain without endangering yourself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There is no power you can obtain without putting everyone and everything you love on the altar of sacrifice.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you understand me, little one?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That... is the price of power.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That is the price we all pay.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Echidna raised her arms ever so slightly, as if bestowing a choice upon her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There are two paths before you,\" she said softly, like a lullaby from hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Would you like to hear them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inara nodded, a slow, nervous nod. She had lost all control of the moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The momentum was no longer hers, if it ever had been.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because as she stood there, feeling cornered and overwhelmed, a bitter realization slipped into her mind,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I never had the advantage to begin with.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Echidna had allowed her to speak first. That was mercy and a test. Nothing more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t know the full extent of Echidna’s power, but she knew it was far beyond her comprehension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Inara knew her limits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And how would she not?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had faced them all her life, every damn day since she’d awakened his weak origin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She took a breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment that would define her future forever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes,\" she said clearly. \"I want to hear them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Echidna didn’t keep her waiting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The first option,\" she said, her voice calm and clear, \"is to accept the power I will give you... and with it, accept its burden.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You will inherit my enemies. You will inherit all of me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And without a doubt you will create enemies of your own.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And those enemies... will not only affect you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They can, and will, reach the people you love.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That is the first path.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She paused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came the second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The second option,\" Echidna said, smiling wide so wide that her teeth began to show.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that’s when Inara saw them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens, no hundreds, of eyes, looking at her from inside Echidna. Eyes that stared not with curiosity, but with hunger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sight made Inara stagger back, her entire body trembling uncontrollably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was... horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Raw, unknowable horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even remembering that glimpse made the hair on her body rise in sheer terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Echidna spoke again but this time, it was no longer her voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was many voices. A symphony of dissonance. A sound that tore through reality itself. A sound so vile, so wrong, it made Inara’s ears bleed as she collapsed to her knees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, only then, did the words register.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then you will become one of me, little one. You will be my child.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inara immediately coughed out black blood. Her body convulsed in horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her spirit trembled. Her instincts screamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t just fear. This wasn’t panic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was existential dread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the realization that you are nothing in front of something that could erase your soul with a breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She felt small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She felt powerless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She felt worthless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She felt—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’LIKE FUCKING SHIT!’ Inara raged inwardly, her voice echoing inside her soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anger flared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not at Echidna. Not at fate. Not even at the trial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Why... why was I so stupid as to ask for power that comes without a price?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Power doesn’t come freely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not in this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not in any world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Inara, more than anyone, knew that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To gain power, one must sacrifice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes even the greatest sacrifices are not enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes... you must become something else entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So if she had the chance, no matter how terrifying, no matter how high the cost, if there was a way to obtain the power to control monsters, to become something more...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she would bear it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She would shoulder it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She would not run.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She would not cower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She would not fail her mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She would not fail the man who saved her worthless life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She would not... she could not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her choice was clear now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No hesitation. No fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only cold, burning resolve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I accept,\" Inara whispered, coughing blood, her voice rising with each word. \"I accept the burdens of your legacy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I will shoulder them all. So give me your power.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Give me the strength... the ability to control monsters.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Burn away my weak, worthless self and let me be reborn as...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...as a monster.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her slitted green eyes glowed with eerie, bright and obsessed flow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Echidna smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because this was what she had been waiting for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t just want potential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wanted obsession.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Inara had it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Echidna stood, and the moment she took a step forward, space distorted and collapsed around her warping reality as she appeared before Inara in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inara flinched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she did not break.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She stood there, trembling, but still looking her in the eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Echidna, smiling wider, slowly raised a slender finger... and pressed it against Inara’s forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then softly\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I accept you as my heir, Inara Serpentine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"From this moment forward, you are no longer who you were.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are no longer weak.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Heir of Echidna, the Monster of Monsters.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She smiled one final time, unsettling and maternal all at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So live up to this title... my heir.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inara smiled back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That same eerie smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That same terrifying, beautiful smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I will.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, the blood, bones, and rotting corpses of the realm surged into motion, swirling and lifting as they surrounded her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This... was the final transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The final rite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last evolution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Inara Serpentine became what she was always meant to be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in that moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She ascended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She evolved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That day...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inara... was no longer weak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—End of Chapter 89—\u003C\u002Fp>",1272,"2026-06-03T10:53:47.503Z",1,"novelbin.me","d2150f34b08f38e519455da516777f340541b7884b0f603f5dce739e1bc59d43","killed-me-now-i-have-your-power-chapter-90","killed-me-now-i-have-your-power-chapter-88",481,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fkilled-me-now-i-have-your-power-cover.jpg"]