Chapter 797: Fake
"Isn"t she one of your team members? You don"t feel sad for her?" the dark-haired man asked Lucifer.
"She isn"t one of my team members, at least not yet. For me, I have no team members. I can"t trust them blindly, whatever they say. I need to know more about what happened before deciding anything," Lucifer answered, sighing.
" And even then, these will just be fake memories for me. I can"t feel any attachment to these people. So I truly feel nothing here," he continued, shaking his head. "For me, there are two people fighting, and one will die. That"s all."
"Wait, let me show you something. Maybe that will jog your memories. You can see that second guy standing with you in that video too. It shall prove that you know him." The dark-haired man unlocked his phone and started searching for a video.
"What are you showing me?" Lucifer asked.
"I"m showing you the video of you threatening the entire world, which is only a few days old," the dark-haired man said. "Since it was your video that the entire world saw, it"s all over the internet now."
"Before this, there weren"t any videos of you. I don"t know why, but it seems you didn"t want people to see you. That"s why this video became so popular and came as such a surprise."
"Here it is."
Opening the video, the man held the phone before Lucifer.
In the video, Lucifer stood with Kellian and Arthur, issuing the warning to the entire world while showing snippets of his war on the Warlock Council.
"That"s Kellian, I know. And this second guy is the one fighting. I see... So these two did work for Uprising. Still, this isn"t right." Lucifer shook his head, sighing.
"What isn"t right?" the man asked, frowning. "Did you notice something?"
"That guy... He isn"t me," Lucifer lazily said, shaking his head.
"He isn"t you? What? How can you say that? I can"t find any difference between him and you. Why do you say it"s not you? Just because you don"t have any memories and you think you wouldn"t have done that?" asked the man.
"It"s not because of that. It"s just that this guy isn"t me," Lucifer said casually. "It must be Caen. I remember he could impersonate anyone. They used him."
"Caen? Who is he? And how did you know it"s him and not you? I literally can"t find even one difference between you and the person in the video?"
"You won"t notice the difference; you need to know Caen transform to see this. I noticed this thing when I saw him impersonate someone for the first time near the lab. I"m a hundred percent sure it"s him."
"And if that"s the case, it means that I didn"t challenge the entire world. They made it seem like I did it. And as you said, there were no videos of me before, so most probably, they used Caen as me."
" It"s all a big trap. I should"ve expected it. They wanted to use my name and my face!"
"So you"re saying you weren"t leading the Uprising? They made someone impersonate you to make it seem like it was you leading them? Why would they do that?"
"Why? People can be really scheming; you should"ve realized by now. I wanted to trust them, but now I see that I can"t even do that. These people lied to me and used fake videos to make it seem like it was my idea to do this. Even Kellian betrayed me. They"re no different."
Frowning, Lucifer stood up. "When they come here, tell them if they use my name again, I"ll kill them."
Lucifer started walking away once more, this time with no intention to stop.
"Could you be mistaken?" the dark-haired man asked, following after Lucifer.
"I am not mistaken. As soon as I saw that person, I realized it"s Caen. Moreover, even in the videos of the War, the person that they showed fighting, that wasn"t me."
" I don"t even have those abilities that they showed. It was just a fake video, and now they"re paying the price of faking as they deserve to pay."
"Also, if I was leading them and it was my idea and goal, why would they use Caen? I would"ve given that message myself. These people... They are fake... They aren"t any different. I should"ve known. They can use anyone for their own benefits."
Pushing the door open, Lucifer left the restaurant and disappeared into the horizon, not looking back.
The dark-haired man stayed in the restaurant, sighing. He didn"t chase after Lucifer as he finally was free. Still, he was scared. He needed to be here to give the message of Lucifer to the Uprising, but he was trembling already in fear.
Lucifer had recognized that this video was fake? If it was true and he told the Uprising that Lucifer knew it, they were going to be really p.i.s.sed. Moreover, they could even kill him to keep this secret if it was true.
He wanted to run, but then Uprising would"ve killed him as well, he thought. In any case, he was going to risk death.
He turned to the waiter, who was the only person that heard Lucifer"s words.
"Listen to me carefully. We heard a secret that we shouldn"t have heard, and if Uprising finds out that we know this secret, they will kill us. You understand, right?"
The waiter nodded his head. "What should we do now?"
"Just keep that secret. Don"t tell them anything. We don"t need to tell them that we know the secret. Just tell them that Lucifer said he was going to leave, and he didn"t want to wait for anyone. They can"t blame us for not being able to stop Lucifer since we"re only humans," the dark-haired man explained.
"That way, they don"t know that we know about the video. And they can"t blame us either. This should be our best attempt at survival, but only you can help me. It"ll only work if our stories match."
"So make sure you don"t mess up. If they find out that we lied, we"ll die as well. So get your poker face on."
The waiter nodded as he tapped his heart, which was beating like a drum. He even felt like his head was going to explode with all the stress. He sat on a chair, finding it hard to breathe.
"Calm down. It"s not your fault. They won"t do anything to you. Just tell them the story I told you, which isn"t a lie. The story is completely true. It"s just that we are omitting some parts from the story. That doesn"t make it a lie."