[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-solflare-the-painter-s-secret":3,"chapter-solflare-the-painter-s-secret-solflare-the-painter-s-secret-chapter-105":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Solflare: The Painter's Secret",{"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},1323033,1757,"Chapter 105: He’s Dead, So What Now?","solflare-the-painter-s-secret-chapter-105",105,"\u003Cp>Leon dashed forward and wrapped his arms around the lieutenant. His heart turned into a frantic drum in his chest as he stared at the blood seeping out of the man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tilted a final glance at the beast, then hurled himself and the body at great speed out of the Leviathan’s sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The roaring sound from the creature thundered, shaking the world as it followed like a curse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a speeding mind, Leon darted into a cavern shaped like a colossal human skull. He neglected the structure and bashed straight inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly, he lowered the lieutenant’s pale body to the ground, tore the remnants of the suit he wore, and then wrapped them around where the blood gushed out most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t die on me, please.\" He screamed, pressing hard on the wrapped wound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pisssh! Pissssh!! Pissssh!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a broken pipe, more blood gushed out from the left wound when Leon’s weight increased on the one on the right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Leon,\" Prince said, smiling. \"I thought you were mad at first.\" He coughed out a glob of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t say anything,\" Leon instructed in a tear-filled voice. \"Reserve the strength you have.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lieutenant shook his head. \"There is no more strength left in me, Leon,\" he said, and raised his bloodied right arm to Leon’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Promise to live for the universe and...\" He paused as a seizure struck him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No! No!! No!!! Don’t leave me here.\" Leon screamed, trying so hard to stop the seizure. But he couldn’t.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The left arm of the lieutenant slipped and slammed onto the ground hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leon’s eyes rolled in their sockets as he tilted his gaze between the entrance of the cavern and the pale, stiff body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, you can’t die like this.\" Leon squeezed his eyes shut, raised his arms, and slammed them hard on the lieutenant’s chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leon stood up abruptly and screamed. \"I promise.\" His knees buckled and slammed hard onto the ground beside the body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silence ruled in the cavern for the remaining three days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding! Ding!! Ding!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A mechanical sound erupted from the dust-covered kneeling form beside the slightly raised, human-shaped ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leon coughed three consecutive times, his eyes closed. His vision phased as he slowly cracked them open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stared at the shimmering screen of the wristband on the lieutenant’s left arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Congratulations. The sixty days have ended. Care to make the call?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Prince.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Make the call? Leon thought, then said it in a dying tone. \"Make the call.\" His body wiggled for a while, then slowly landed on the ground like a half-chopped tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another mechanical voice erupted from the lieutenant’s wristband.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Your location has been transferred. Stand in an open area.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Darkness ruled over Leon’s eyelids as he passed out. After a while, he saw the two Sentinels looming on each side of him, their massive forms poised as if ready to strike a condemned man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Welcome back, Creator.\" They said with one voice and bowed their heads. There, in the dream world, memories of the academy poured in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, the mocking laughter passed by like a sharp sword, followed by Vera’s face. But this time, the face and body structure of Vera had changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now she looked like a young adult and stood in a vast plain, screaming and throwing her arms forward, as if fighting an invisible being like a madwoman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Tiger followed, standing in a vast land at the center of men dressed in sleek black suits. For his own part, he wasn’t screaming but held the same death stare in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lastly, Jade followed. For Jade, his human form was no longer visible. The only thing visible was the long white-brown hair dangling in the air. He floated in a vast expanse, a place that looked nothing like Earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Zoe’s form reeled into the dream, everything collapsed into nothingness, including the Sentinels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, inside a large room filled with hospital beds, Darian walked boldly toward the exit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She exhaled, then smiled. \"He’s dead, like we wished for,\" she said, giggling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the window on the right side of the hallway, Zoe’s face saddened. \"Don’t say that, Darian. I thought you also liked him.\" She closed in on Darian, then stared at him with sharp eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Liked him?\" Darian’s giggle turned into loud laughter. \"I was just letting him enjoy his last hours.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zoe stood there, shocked. \"But—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But what?\" Darian placed his left arm on her shoulder, then shook his head. \"... as Kira stated earlier, it’s just that his father was Andrew Storm.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He moved away from her and spread his arms wide. \"Since both of them are also dead, I think it’s time we change the papers of the clan.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you implying, Darian?\" Zoe stiffened. \"I never knew you were also this rude.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"See who’s talking about rude.\" Darian laughed cunningly. \"It’s in the blood. And,\" he placed his right hand on his chin, \"...you are more than everyone in the family, pretender.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Seriously?!\" Zoe screamed and tilted her head toward Hu Qing, who sat closer to the window, tending deaf ears to his children.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dad,\" Zoe called out and neared him. \"What are they going to do now?\" she asked, then exhaled sharply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t ask silly questions, Zoe.\" Hu Qing’s soft expression reddened. \"Are you now in love with the boy you wanted to kill the first time you brought him?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without much to say in response, Zoe curled her mouth inward and stared at her father with wet eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kira! Call me the doctor and Mr. Lee.\" Hu Qing tilted his head and gestured at the lady standing closer to the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kira nodded, smiling, then dashed out of the hallway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who does she think she is now? Dad’s second wife?\" Kira ranted about Zoe’s reactions as she opened door after door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After opening the main door leading to the large hall, she halted. \"Where can I find that Mr. Lee?\" she thought for a while, then smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He’ll be with the other lieutenants.\" She exited in the same direction she came from, then went straight to the proctor’s door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Knock. Knock. Knock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She entered without waiting, then called out, \"Lee, you’re needed by my father.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Needed by your father? Mr. Lee glanced at the girl with a sharp gaze, then rose from the stuffed chair and followed her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a short while, they stopped at the front of the mortuary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mr. Lee closed in on Hu Qing. \"Hello, sir. Your daughter said—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He’s dead, so what now?\" Hu Qing interrupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sir, are you sure he’s actually dead?\" Mr. Lee’s face glittered with a smile as he remained in the loop of tilting his head from the Prime Minister to the dead boy, now standing and staring in their direction.\u003C\u002Fp>",1130,"2026-06-05T19:15:29.583Z",1,"novelbin.me","1d41909cb93d3bd4c355e290cff663781d3947fabddb8273ae4c5a58f1c2e157","solflare-the-painter-s-secret-chapter-106","solflare-the-painter-s-secret-chapter-104",272,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsolflare-the-painter-s-secret-cover.jpg"]