[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-villain-s-pov":3,"chapter-the-villain-s-pov-the-villain-s-pov-chapter-231":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","THE VILLAIN'S POV",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},336668,598,"Chapter 231 231: The story of Abraham Starlight (2)","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-231",231,"\u003Cp>Father was about to attack him ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A man who had now reached SSS rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he froze completely, When the Engineer spoke words sharper than any sword on this world:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The child Anna Starlight carries .. \"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is your child. One of the family you have searched for so desperately, for so long.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That child... is ****.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing those words,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I watched my father collapse to the ground, broken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His face twisted in an expression I could not even begin to understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The child they wanted him to kill ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was his son.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His long-lost family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Those words… destroyed me more than anything else ever could.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was happy ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, so happy, because he had found one of us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had found his family, Right there, so close all along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was thrust into an unbearable choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Choose, Abraham Starlight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let the child live ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the mother would die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Save your old family .. And kill your new one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or let the child die .. And save the mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Save your new family .. And kill the old.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your answer… will decide their fates.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Engineer was truly cruel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A master manipulator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been manipulating us all along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the very beginning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I clenched my fists so hard my nails dug into my palms, Feeling a fraction of the agony my father must have endured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forced to choose between his family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My father...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The strongest man alive, A man who could destroy the very planet if he wished ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet his sword could not save him now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone... had to die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It broke me completely... to the point I felt myself being torn into pieces.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father sobbed ... Broken beyond repair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can't you just... take me instead?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he begged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sacrifice me... let them both live instead...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But fate ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fate showed no mercy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this was the cruel reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The guilt my father bore that day ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I cannot even begin to imagine it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No strength could carry him through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That day... I decided to tell her everything.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was stunned by his decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He went to Anna Starlight ... And he told her everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything from the very beginning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every burden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He laid it all bare before her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He told her everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His old family, the system, the Engineer, the reincarnation ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How he was a man from the past, How he had been forced into an impossible choice...Between her and his own son.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He expected her to call him a liar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He expected her to curse him, to hate him,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To tear him down with her words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his eyes, He deserved it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Anna Starlight… She did none of that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, she responded with a single word ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I understand.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She believed him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Smiling softly, she placed her hand over her womb ... Over the fragile life growing inside her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There's no need to hesitate. The answer is clear.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even until the end, Abraham Starlight could not understand ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How she managed to smile through it all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The child... our child, must live.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had been ready to sacrifice herself from the very start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maybe you see him as someone else,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But even if he carries memories from another life... this child is our son. He is a piece of both of us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Anna...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He will live, not as some reincarnated soul...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He will live as Frey Starlight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My father was stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Frey.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That will be his name.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That child ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Frey Starlight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On that day, Abraham Starlight made his choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He chose his son.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the days passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your birth coincided with the war between us and the Ultras ... the War of Light.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A brutal conflict that claimed countless lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Back then, whenever I returned home from the battlefield... I would find him waiting for me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Engineer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That entity Abraham once could never find,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now hovered near him every day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Engineer stayed close.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Always close.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He's different from you,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Different from all of you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's what the Engineer told him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His son's reincarnation ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was different from Abraham's own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do you mean?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abraham tried to ask, tried to understand ..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Engineer refused to say more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He only said one thing:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His son's arrival would be monumental.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that his son was unlike anything this world had ever seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"His words made me wonder, over and over again... just what are you, my son? How did you write the events of this world with such precision?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a mystery, One that made no sense no matter how deeply he thought about it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Son... sometimes I wonder—what exactly are you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What kind of being would make an entity like the Engineer treat his arrival with such gravity?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the war raged, The world itself began to change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world... Was preparing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Preparing for his coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The closer the time drew near, the chattier the Engineer became.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even that mechanical, cold being started to display something akin to emotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He was completely mad... but I could only play along.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For the sake of meeting you... my son.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the time came .. He would finally have all the answers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Engineer lingered nearby, never straying far.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the due date approached, He even coordinated with Abraham to evacuate the entire Starlight estate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And instead, He filled it with strange things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I still remember the day he brought those strange creatures into the palace...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Statues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some massive, others disguised as members of the Starlight family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What caught my attention most were three statues standing at the front.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One wore a laughing face,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another wore a face of sorrow,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the last ...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A face of pure rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of them unleashed a terrifying pressure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially the one with the angry mask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was something far beyond even Maekar Valerion himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These beings had come and surrounded Anna Starlight's manor, trembling in anticipation of the moment they had awaited for so long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At that time... I couldn't help but wonder if the child about to be born was truly my son.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world had been turned upside down so much that Abraham Starlight could no longer make sense of anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time kept moving forward, and the closer the moment approached, the more insane the Engineer became.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To the point where he would often mutter incoherently while waiting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A madness reflected even by the ancient statues he had brought with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What exactly was happening?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Days and months passed, until finally, the long-awaited day arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On that day, the entire world trembled... even the flow of aura itself shifted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The aura became denser ... stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if the world itself was preparing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On that day... Frey Starlight was born.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His birth changed everything.\u003C\u002Fp>",1136,"2026-05-30T03:41:22.346Z","2026-06-01T04:30:12.387Z",1,"novelbin.me","2dc2059e7983d64bd4e2aabd02c33adb1a93d5802111bfddfa0e627e1251a256","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-232","the-villain-s-pov-chapter-230",866,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-villain-s-pov-cover.jpg"]