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Chapter 22: The Betrayer’s Name
Author: Rosfun
last update2025-08-14 14:56:15

The sky outside Arcadia was a dull gray when Kai opened his eyes.

He hadn’t slept. Not really.

The grimoire still sat open on the desk, its pages unmoving now—calm as still water. But something inside him had shifted. Like a door cracking open where a wall used to be.

A single name echoed through his skull.

“Aiden.”

He whispered it aloud like a curse, like a prayer. The word didn’t feel foreign. It felt like it belonged to him. Like blood on his hands that would never wash off.

Not a memory. Not quite.

More like a scar.

Kai leaned forward, elbows braced on the desk, fingers digging into his scalp. He didn’t remember Aiden’s face. But the name stirred something violent. A rush of heat behind his eyes. A phantom pain in his chest.

Whoever Aiden was… he’d been close. Important.

Trusted.

And the one who had ended it all.

The grimoire’s pages flipped on their own—slow, deliberate—stopping at a section once sealed in black wax. The page had no title. Just a name written in smudged crimson i
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