Lucie didn't even react. Her golden and red eyes fixed on the crowd before her in the same way they once fixed blankly upon the beautiful sky of Laeh.

Nothing coursed through those eyes of hers.

None of them were surprised, though. They all knew Lucie was incapable of feeling emotions.

She was like a blank sheet of paper, untouched by the filth of the universe's darkness and equally deprived of its beauty.

Perhaps that was mercy. Perhaps that was a curse.

One could wonder about that question, but to the wives, all they could feel toward Lucie was pity.

Pity that she had never felt her heart clench in joy when love slithered its way inside.

Truly…

How hard must it be to walk through life feeling nothing but the void within you?

It was a wonder she hadn't ended it.

But perhaps that was the reason…she felt nothing, so the thought of dying had never even existed.

You don't try to flee what feels normal, after all.

Noah, however, wasn't thinking about any of that. His mind was fixed on his task. He simply strode forward and stopped an inch away from the young, beautiful woman.

He crouched down to face her, eyes meeting eyes. He studied her expression with quiet seriousness and finally noticed in it the faint traits of Western features, reminiscent of Earth.

He smiled faintly, raising his hand as a beautiful, otherworldly heart appeared above his open palm.

Lucie's gaze immediately turned toward it, her body tensing as she sensed the overwhelming power bending the very space around it. An urge to kneel seized her completely. It felt sacred and divine, something that a being like her could only behold with her forehead pressed to the ground.

And so she obeyed that impulse. Slowly, she began to lower her head. But…

"There is no need," Noah said, waving his hand and dispersing the power of the heart, stopping her mid-motion.

She lifted her head back up, blankly meeting his gaze.

Noah smiled.

"Do you remember, Lucie?" he intoned softly. "I promised to give you the ability to feel, to have emotions like anyone else."

"So I've come here to keep my word. And this," he said, pointing at the heart in his hand, "this will be the tool through which you'll feel."

"I will give you my own heart." His smile deepened. "Are you willing?" he asked, though he already knew the answer.

And indeed…

Lucie simply nodded her head, her silence confirming everything.

Noah turned his head just enough to glance over his shoulder at his wives. He noticed that Lea was now awake, her thorn-like body restrained tightly beneath Yuki's overwhelming strength, her voice silenced by Alice's power.

She was struggling, desperately trying to move toward him, her mouth stretched wide in a soundless scream, her hands reaching out as if she could claw her way through the distance separating them.

She looked like a dog unable to bear the absence of its master.

Noah's lips twitched at the sight. 'Did I break her that much?'

Apparently, his face said it all, because all his wives nodded in unison.

"You completely did, husband."

"She's now unable to live without you. Are you going to take responsibility and accept the ex-wife of a Worldborn?"

"Well, unless you plan to kill her," Aphasia added.

Noah glanced at Lea again, then sighed. "We've accepted worse, haven't we?" he said, looking toward Christelle, Lilith, and Justicia.

The three women smirked, shrugged, and answered together, "Guilty."

"And besides, husband," Elizabeth said, resting her chin on her hand with mock thoughtfulness, "Solaris also plans to sleep in your bed."

"And you're fine with that?" Noah rolled his eyes, turning back toward Lucie, who was patiently watching him, waiting for him to begin the process.

Emily shrugged. "Why not? She's been with us since the beginning."

"And don't you want to add a new layer to your collection of degeneracy?" Elizabeth added with a laugh. "Like sleeping with a master and her disciple?"

Noah smirked, placing his hand gently atop Lucie's head. "You know exactly how to convince me, my lovely Seer."

"Because you're a pervert, my dear baby," Selene said with a shrug. "You're easy to convince."

Noah laughed. "Touché."

Then Noah shook his head softly before making Lucie fall into sleep.

Seeing it, the women fell silent, knowing he would need complete focus for what came next.

With a single tap on her chest, Lucie's torso split open with a screeching sound, flesh tearing apart like the fibers of a human body being ripped in two.

Noah watched, amazed, for he knew Lucie was not human.

With her chest wide open, he could finally see her true self, and within her, there was no heart. At least, not one as we knew it.

Her insides were a vast network of shifting alloys, all trying desperately to mimic the workings of a human body. The alloys gleamed in shades of red, white, gold, and black, a mechanical anatomy sculpted by mortal hands to imitate life.

Where her heart should have been lay a dense cluster of alloys, pulsing faintly as it shifted shape, trying and failing to resemble a heart. It was directly connected to her brain.

That thing was clearly incapable of feeling anything.

Noah slid his hand inside her chest. He didn't wish to change too much, she was, after all, a masterpiece of mortal creation, proof of humankind's boundless ingenuity.

All he sought was to perfect what already existed.

He fused the cluster of alloy with his own heart, letting its essence blend seamlessly into hers.

Once it nestled into place, connected to every line and circuit of her being, Noah invoked his Law.

A golden-red thread appeared, shimmering with sacred heat. He guided it deep into her soul, where it unfurled into the form of a crow. Its purpose simple, yet immense: to elevate Lucie's natural talent beyond measure, placing her among the universe's highest.

Then Noah summoned his mastery over emotion itself, condensing it into a colorless flame and placed it gently within Lucie's new heart. The flame flared to life, bathing her chest in silent brilliance.

When it was done, he sealed her chest back together, his touch delicate yet firm. Then, placing a finger upon her forehead, he infused her with life essence.

BADUM—!

A single heartbeat exploded through the air with calamitous intensity, shaking the space around them as if the world itself had exhaled.

Lucie's eyes snapped open, her golden and red irises glowing with a luster never seen in them before. She lay there on the ground, dazed, her gaze fixed above her, at the white sky of Laeh.

It was strange.

At that instant, with her new heart beating fiercely inside her chest, each pulse threatening to burst it open, Lucie's eyes widened more and more with every passing second.

No one existed around her in her perception. Only the white sky of Laeh filled her mind.

It was a sky she had seen every day since she came to live here. After all, her favorite pastime was simply sitting atop a hill, staring at it until her eyes grew tired, then sleeping.

But through all her observations, she had never noticed how much the sky of Laeh was…

"…beautiful," she whispered, her eyes trembling as tears began to slip down her cheeks.

The sensation made her shudder, as she had never cried in her entire life.

That was when she finally noticed the flood of sensations slamming into her mind from every direction, the soft wind rustling her hair and clothes, the solid rocky ground beneath her back, uneven yet cool to the touch.

She jolted upright, breathless, and began touching her own body in sudden awe.

The sensation of her own existence was entirely new to her…her height, her weight, the smoothness of her skin, the curve of her breasts… she even turned her head, looked at her ass, and slapped it, gasping as she felt how soft and bouncy it was.

A small, mischievous grin formed on her lips.

Then, without thinking, her hand began to drift downward, first to her belly, then lower still, until it slipped between her thighs. Her fingers slid inside her panties, brushing against…

"Young lady, please, have some decency, will you?" Noah caught her wrist gently, his smile twitching as he stopped her.

Behind them, his wives burst into laughter, unable to contain themselves at the unexpected scene.

Lucie blinked, startled, and turned her head slowly toward Noah. She knew him. He was Noah Vaelgrim, the Progenitor, the Absolute Deity.

This was the man who had given her the ability to feel, the man who had filled her world with sensations so vivid they bordered on ecstasy. But beyond that… he was also the most beautiful man creation had ever produced.

Somehow, she believed it.

She smiled at him, freely, joyfully, then raised her hand to caress his cheek, her heterochromic eyes glimmering with newfound life.

Her heart pounded wildly in her chest as she looked at him, something strange sprouting inside her, like a seedling finally given water.

"My lord," Lucie whispered, "I think I love you?"

The wives rolled their eyes.

Noah smiled wryly.

And…

[Lucie's affections for you have reached 100%.]

—End of Chapter 380—

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