My Substitute CEO Bride (Nash Calcraft)

Chapter 1982

It was the night before the Summit of Ten Thousand Dynasties.

In Kreiz Prison of Yerusia, a facility specifically designed to detain and control Espers, resided individuals who defied the Illuminion or had been deemed useless pawns by them. Having caused a ruckus at the palace, Sven was transferred to this prison. Here, he encountered Marie.

By a twist of fate, they were placed in the same cell.

Upon hearing someone approach, Marie instinctively hid in a corner. Meanwhile, the guards merely locked Sven in and left.

"Marie, it's me," Sven said excitedly.

Marie's frightened expression softened slightly, but her eyes still showed traces of fear.

"Sven? Is... that you?" she stammered.

"Yes, it's me!" Sven walked forward eagerly.

Marie quickly stepped back, hastily wiping the dirt from her face and raising her hand to stop him. "Don't... come any closer. If you touch me, you'll die."

he notice the layers of protective gear she

are those things on you?" Sven asked,

she shakily explained, "M-My body is strange. If anyone touches my skin, their heart

trembled, sounding as if she was on the verge of

ignored her protests and approached

told you not to come closer. You... You..." Before

react. She remembered how during the Heaven and Netherworld game, Sven had hugged her the same

was happening again.

and she had a tragic start in life. Her mother died at birth, and the doctor and nurses who touched her in the delivery room also mysteriously died. Unlike other babies, she did not cry at birth. She was merely

Guild

to a lab. In the dim lab, time seemed to stretch endlessly until she was finally put on a plane. That was her first encounter with the outside

and green fields, filling her once colorless world with

plane did not take her to freedom. It delivered her to the Illuminion in Yerusia, where she became another subject of experimentation. This time, it was

simulated a

all

an experiment. At 12, she was deemed