My Substitute CEO Bride (Nash Calicraft) novel Chapter 2543

"Why? I'm not deserving of this."

"This is your destiny," Casimir said meaningfully. “I'm sorry. I became a stumbling block on your way to escape your destiny.”

"It’s okay, Father Hay. No, I mean Master Hay. Of course, I'm well aware of it."

"Do you hate me?" Casimir suddenly asked.

Linden sighed, then smiled and jested at him, “I'm afraid it's unrealistic to say I don't hate you, but... you saved my life, so what can I say?”

He continued, "At that moment of death, I felt nothing. There was only a trace of relief. I knew I was very cowardly and incompetent. I didn't dare to face my destiny, so I chose to escape. I thought I could live an ordinary life this way, but alas… Even the judge of the underworld rejected me. How ironic."

Linden opened his hands and asked, "If you give this to me, will that thing come back into my body?"

"Yes."

"I see. Thank you for your hard work. You haven't used it all these years."

"Why do you think it is?"

Linden thought for a while and then said with great certainty, "The Chaos Provocation Art."

…

When Linden finally opened his eyes again, he was already in Casimir’s room, and he had been resurrected.

However, his vision and hearing did not recover.

He sat up in bed.

Casimir was standing at the door.

Linden knelt in front of him and said, "Master, thank you for saving my life. I could never repay you enough for that."

"Stop saying these polite words to me. Remember, you're the next Heavenly Master of Hydra Hill."

"How could I take on such a big responsibility?"

"Of course, you can," Casimir said, "Because I said so, and your body already contains Amulet Glory."

"I thank you for your blessings, but I’m not mentally mature yet. I'm afraid..."

"Exactly. Aren't we here for the sake of eradicating evil?"

"Yes, Father Hay. I'm afraid what you're doing isn’t appropriate..."

However, Casimir extracted all the demonic powers from Linden's body.

"What if I do this instead?"

Casimir really wanted to save this child's life, so even if it meant destroying the boy’s spiritual roots, he still had to extract the demonic powers from his body.

"This should be good enough. This child can live as an ordinary person from now on. Is that okay?"

However, some of his peers still had concerns.

"Father Hay, it's not that I disagree. But look at this child's ears and eyes. Without the protection of that power, he would've died long ago. If you remove the child’s powers now, he'll definitely become disabled. What’s the difference between a life like this and dying..."

"Shut up!" Casimir shouted. "We’ll discuss that later. I have to let him make his own choice instead of leaving him to die here without a choice."

Casimir told Linden everything after he grew up, and Linden's choice was, "I think things are pretty good as they are now."