Prologue

                                    

                                          
This book is inspired from the stories of @YunaReinhart's "Black Dahlia" and @Vivian_Henituse's "In Another Life".
Both stories are great! Thank you so much for writing such amazing stories!

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The sky was gray and the thunder roared. It was a perfect day to execute the sinner named Cale Henituse, the firstborn son of the Henituse Family. The people threw rocks and spat curses at him and yet the red-haired man looked cold as he stared at the sky. He couldn't understand what he had done wrong. He couldn't identify the reason why he kept dying from the hands of the people he cared, loved, saved and protected. 
Did I really commit atrocious crimes in my past life for the gods to punish me like this? Cale thought. He was already devoid of any emotion. The rocks hit him on his forehead and bled. 
In my nineteenth regression, I hid and only supported the heroes from the shadows. Yet, I am, once again, standing in this platform waiting for the verdict to pass for me to meet my own death, Cale continued on his thoughts as the knight forcefully made him kneel. 
Cale looked around and there he saw his biological father, who was looking at him with his eyes that says he doesn't want to call him his son. Then, his eyes landed on his butler whom he trusted and treated as a second father. Next to him was the person he treated as an older brother. After him was the prince, now Emperor, whom he loved with all his heart and soul. Next was the children he loved dearly from his first life to his nineteenth regression. And lastly, his eyes landed on the hero Choi Han, whom he treated well after his second regression. He treated the black-haired swordsman as his best friend. However, all of them were looking at him with so much animosity and disgust. He tried to find the reason why he was standing on this platform once again, but he failed to spot him. 
I guess he wasn't healed yet, Cale thought as his eyes were looking for Kim Rok Soo, another older brother figure. 
During the final battle with the Sealed God, Cale and Kim Rok Soo teamed up to reseal the God of Despair. They desperately tried to do so as they were mortals, it wasn't easy to seal a god even if its real powers were suppressed. As soon as they resealed the God of Despair, he said words as if it were a curse. 
"Cale Henituse, Kim Rok Soo, I will never let you two be happy! I will make you regret sealing me like this," the Sealed God laughed as his voice vanished to thin air. 
Cale was about to cheer when he heard a grunt from his side and he saw his Rok Soo-hyung with a dagger in his stomach. He panicked and immediately approached him when a loud bang was heard and before he could do something, his face was on the floor. 
"What the hell are you doing to Rok Soo?!" Choi Han yelled as he pinned Cale's body on the floor. 
"Wait! This is a misunderstanding! I didn't do it!" Cale tried to reason as he lifted his head. Then Cale's head jerked to the side as a punch landed on his face. His eyes widened when he saw who did that, it was Vicross—his chef and the person he thought of as an older brother. 
Cale's world stopped as he realized he would meet his end once again. He tried to plead to Alver but his cold eyes didn't change. Nobody believed him, as always. 
He was dragged to the prison without healing him. He was still bleeding but they left him there in the cold, damp prison. Once again, he relives his prison life from his  eighth regression. He was once again tortured by Vicross and Choi Han. They starved him and left him in the cold prison. The knights assigned to guard him raped him. All his thin threads of hope began to snap one by one as realization hit him.