Ah my bad, i forgot to add timer to this chapter.

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"Yaohuaba, you bastard..."

The black-haired girl trembled as she turned her head, staring at Yaohuaba's face with disbelief, rage, and fury. But as the demon sword embedded in her body began emanating an eerie white light, her body started convulsing beyond her control.

Just as the girl's counter-attacking blade was about to strike Yaohuaba, her arm suddenly collapsed and the sword clattered to the ground.

The arm's collapse was only the beginning.

The crimson-gold runes symbolizing the saint's divine power quietly faded from her eyes.

The next moment, under Yaohuaba's excited gaze, as the curse's power spread, the black-haired girl's body crumbled into nothingness alongside the demon sword.

"Ha, haha, hahaha, HAHAHAHA!!! I... I did it!!! I killed her!!!"

Staring at where the black-haired girl had fallen, Yaohuaba erupted into hysterical roars after a few seconds of silence. His excitement, elation, and joy of surviving barely contained.

...

High above,

Yumo's somewhat ethereal form watched everything below with complicated feelings. Seeing Yaohuaba's twisted grin and the Alliance members, anger involuntarily welled up in her heart.

Taking a deep breath to suppress her emotions, the black-haired girl looked questioningly at Maya beside her.

"What's going on here?"

On the other side, Maya smiled, her eyes glowing with brilliant golden runes.

"It's the my power, the Eye of Revelation. I can see chunks of the past with this thing. What you're looking at right now is my world projected into this consciousness space."

"Hmm..."

Reaching through some Alliance member's head, Yumo blinked curiously.

"So this all happened in the past?"

"Yes."

"The scene of the previous Judgment Saint's death..."

Raising her hand to her chin, Yumo's eyes suddenly flashed with realization.

She finally understood why Yaohuaba had been so terrified of her before, desperate to kill her. After all, if anyone found out he'd conspired with the Abyssal Lord to murder a saint, Yaohuaba's fate would be pretty miserable.

Too bad for him, all his careful planning to eliminate her was pointless.

Maya had known all along.

Yaohuaba's fate had probably been decided by Maya long ago. For a moment, Yumo felt an unexpected twinge of sympathy for this guy who shared a similar destiny.

But she quickly shook her head, pushing any sympathy for Yaohuaba out of her mind.

Taking a deep breath, recalling the black-haired woman's face, Yumo looked down at the devastated battlefield below with complicated feelings.

"So you're telling me that was my past life? My previous life was the last Judgment Saint? What a dramatic twist. Does this mean I'm supposed to awaken my past memories and recover my powers or something?"

Thinking of some hot-blooded manga she'd read before, Yumo raised her eyebrow playfully.

However, Maya mercilessly poured cold water on her hopes.

"Sorry to disappoint you, but that kind of plot basically won't happen."

"Huh?"

"Like I said before, The Judgment saint was an idiot. Maybe to make her easier to manage, The Creator gave her such powerful abilities precisely because she wasn't very smart. That girl didn't store her memories in her True Soul… or rather, she stored them in the wrong place. So you can't access any so-called past-life memories. Also..."

Maya's eyes narrowed as she got serious.

"You're not exactly a traditional reincarnation."

"What do you mean?"

"Well... how should I put this?"

Slowly raising her hand to snap her fingers, Maya's eyes suddenly flashed with brilliant golden light.

The next instant,

Under her consciousness's control, space began to warp and the surrounding scenery underwent earth-shattering changes. Under Yumo's slightly startled gaze, the desolate, war-torn battlefield scene instantly condensed into a quiet little room.

"Huh? This is... a hospital?"

Looking around at the familiar interior, Yumo frowned.

The room's appearance was clearly that of earth hospital, even the Skina City's Hospital she knew well.

Not only that, In this reconstructed hospital room night scene, her mother Yela lay sleeping in the bed. Beside her sat a stunningly beautiful silver-haired woman.

This woman was none other than the Guiding Saint Maya.

Or rather, Maya from back then.

At this moment, under Yumo's puzzled gaze, Maya slowly raised her hand and placed it on Yela's abdomen. As spiritual power surged, golden divine light gradually enveloped Yela.

...

Taking in this scene, Yumo narrowed her eyes slightly.

"This... this is... the maternity ward... and this date,,,, isn't this six months before I was born?"

Yumo fixed her serious gaze on the silver-haired woman.

"What exactly are you doing?"

"The Abyssal Lord who worked with Yaohuaba to kill the Judgment Saint was called Luo. Real powerful guy, smart as hell too. That demon sword he made? It totally destroyed The Judgment saint's soul. Even with the Eye of Revelation, I only managed to scrape together a third of her soul. Without the creator's protection, I wouldn't have found even that much."

"You mean the Judgment Saint's soul was incomplete?"

"Yes."

"So you're..."

Glancing at Yela bathed in golden light, sensing the spiritual power continuously flowing toward her womb, Yumo seemed to guess what Maya was doing.

That was… Soul reconstruction?!

To Yumo's guess, Maya nodded noncommittally.

"Yeah, a busted soul like that can't be reborn. So to bring her back, I had to find a soul that matched hers by over ninety percent. Not easy, trust me… souls that can become Judgment Saints are crazy rare. I looked for years before finding one that worked."

"That would be me?"

"Not exactly you. It should be the original Yumo."

"Original?"

"Yes, I used The Judgment saint's remnant soul, Yumo's soul, and part of my own source power to create who you are now."

"..."

"So strictly speaking, you're neither Fanzi Yumo nor the Judgment Saint's reincarnation, you're an entirely new being."

As if remembering something, Maya's expression suddenly became bright and gentle.

"Oh, right~"

Playfully embracing Yumo from behind, Maya said affectionately:

"Your soul contains quite a bit of my source power. I personally crafted your entire soul, so in a sense... little Yumo, you could probably be considered my daughter?"

Yumo: ??!! =-=

"Ara~ Why do you look so disgusted??"