Chapter 391 391 - Lilith’s Origin

"Lilith?" Noah asked, worried, as he saw a pair of tears fall from the snake's eyes. 'Why is she crying? Did calling her that hurt her' he asked himself, completely at a loss as to why she would be crying.

"It's nothing," she told him, as she turned her face away. Hiding her tears. "It's just... that's how y—Lucifer used to call me when we were... nevermind," she interrupted herself, almost calling Noah Lucifer before completing the sentence.

'I see,' he thought, understanding now why she had cried. There was still the point of her now remembering this until she could be emotional about it, her memory clearly having recovered by at least some bit. He extended his arms, pulling her close to him and lying her head over his shoulder. "It must have been tough, having forgotten everything," he muttered, the snake letting go of herself and just leaning onto him with her eyes closed, her tears sogging up his pajamas.

"Yeah... but it wasn't of all bad," she said, chuckling slightly, despite her teary eyes and silent sobs. "I got to meet you," she told him, making Noah bite on his lips, self-conscious of how much importance the snake gave to their random but timely meeting.

"I still don't know for sure what made me think about entering that pet-shop out of a sudden, I'd never entered one like that, and it's not like the idea of having monsters as pets had never crossed my mind before then," he said, moving his hand to his head and fixing his disheveled bed-hair, all while still sparing some of his attention to petting the snake. "Who would have guessed that a detour on my way to the hospital would get me someone like you," he told her, ashaming himself a little in the process, but giving the snake peace of mind.

After a while had passed, Lilith ran her tongue over her mouth, and slithered herself from his embrace, lying on the bed, sprawled, "You know, this sensation is the worst," she said, calling out Noah's attention. "Suddenly knowing everything you lost and missed, while knowing for a fact how long it has been, yet having no idea how to get it all back," she turned around, looking at Noah in the eyes, who was at a loss for words. "Yet, I got so much, so many new and happier things... I'm not sure if I feel bad or glad."

Noah stared at the snake while she said so, trying to understand what led her to say such things. Either way, the fact she used to have a human form kept hammering his head, leaving him even more confused. Almost as if this knowledge was not his to have.

"That's a decision that is only yours to make. Whether you abandon everything in search for what you have lost because you now remember it, or you let go of the past in favor of what you have now, or you even try to conciliate both, that's a choice only you can make," Noah told her, turning to the side of the bed and standing up. "Regardless of what you choose, I'll agree, since it's your life, after all." He did not bother looking at her as he said so, rather, he couldn't get himself to. The idea she would just leave back to hell and he would lose the only companion she could entrust his life to in a fight blindly was terrifying.

"You leaving?" she asked, as she saw him walk alongside the bed with the corner of her eye.

"I'm going to grab some breakfast, you coming?" he said, the snake slithering her way behind him with an expression of half disappointment that was written all over her.

The two made their way to the dining room, and sat on the table. The breakfast was not served yet, but as soon as they sat down, the bustling of employees could be heard. Time has already passed and it was no longer that early, but it was still early compared to the times they normally ate.

"About the things you remember," Noah addressed Lilith, who was sitting on a chair by his side, "Do you remember having—" Noah started asking, but the snake did not wait for him to finish the question, already knowing what it was about.

"Me having a human form? Yeah, I do," she responded, coldly. "I always knew I hadn't always been a snake ever since we met Bel. But also, from talking to him yesterday, I know I could transform into a snake too, or rather, I was cursed to be a snake from the very beginning, and used my powers to return to my original form." Lilith's words were an entire new world to Noah, who was not privy of any of the conversations between the two.

Lilith looked at him, seeing his slight confusion, and took a deep breath, before asking. "Have you ever read the Bible?" she asked, looking forward to Noah's answer, and sighing as he shook his head, in silence. "Guess you only ever searched about it, never getting to that. Well, in it, there are many books that tell the story of how humans came to be, and how the faith took shape three thousand years ago. The first book is called The Beginning, or Genesis. In it, it explains in detail how God created the world and the humans. Got molded us people from the earth itself, just like he'd done with trees and birds and animals. But he had a particular idea of what they were supposed to be—images of himself."

Noah listened in carefully, taking note of the slight changes in her voice as she mentioned things like God, and 'us people'. One thing was clear, she saw herself as a person.

"But animals needed two different kin to reproduce, males and females. So, he first molded one that closely resembled him, a male. That person was called Adam, the first man. And he molded another person, with characteristics he found endearing, to be Adam's partner, his equal... Me."

Noah choked on saliva, coughing as he heard her say so, his eyes wide. She was saying she was made by god directly, moreover, that she was the first woman to ever exist. Noah had done his research, the name of the first woman was Eve, and she wasn't molded from the ground like Adam, she was taken from his rib.

But Lilith saw right through his confusion, and continued, "The problem was, Adam saw how God ruled over everything, how he had angels under him, many with features and appearance like mine, and decided this made him above me, that he was better than me. That's when the fights started to break out, and we would yell at each other, and he would want to do only what he wanted, and throw everything else at me. That's when God got frustrated. His creation had to be perfect, so he outcast me," she said with the naturality of someone who was just recounting a tale from long long ago. Noah noticed that her anger was not directed towards God, but rather, Adam. "So, he cursed me to be a snake, and inhabit the same perfect garden they would, so I could see their happiness. He took a part of his body, and modified it to be the same as me, Eve. And she took the place that once was mine, but with one change. She was now submissive to him, she belonged to Adam, something I never would do."

Noah raised his hand, asking for her to give him some time. He was still adapting everything he was hearing to everything he knew, trying to connect the dots. "But then how did you get thrown into hell, and meet Lucifer, and become a demon?" Noah asked, still confused.

"That's the story of how the three of us got thrown out of there," she said, slightly rolling her eyes. "There was this one tree in the middle of the garden, it was a fruit tree, and God called it the Grisait, the Tree of Fascination, also called by other religions The World Tree. That tree bore a fruit every thousand or so years, and it was said that that fruit would give immense knowledge and wisdom to those who ate it, making them able to judge reality for themselves. Me, Adam and Eve had never eaten the fruit, because it never happened. And God had warned that it was something against the rules. I hated them, with all my heart, but I would never do something to hurt them..." she paused, recollecting herself before telling the end of the story. "So one day, it dropped from its branch, the fruit, that is, and Eve was sitting under the tree. She cut the fruit in half, and took a large bite of it, and immediately, something about her changed. She was no longer happy and giggly like before, her eyes were way more serious. I followed her, as she dressed herself with some leaves, covering her naked body, and fed Adam a piece of it. They looked at each other, and realized what they had done, and then they saw me, staring at them from afar."

Noah watched as her expression changed, from sadness, to confusion, and rage. "So they tried to give it to me, but I refused, then they begged, and I still said not, and lastly, they forced me to eat it. I had never seen them be violent, so I never imagined they would do that to me... That was the fruit's fault. The fruit gave them the knowledge of how to subdue, exploit and force others, like many other types of knowledge... But God would never believe me, who had been cursed, and chose to believe the two people who ate it out of their own will—who learned how to lie. And God punished the three of us, kicked all of us from the garden of heaven and Eden, but he believed them." Lilith looked down at the table, rage coloring her eyes as she cried. "And he kicked the two to the place he'd created to be just like eden, Earth, and gave them a second chance. But for me, whom he blamed for everything, he threw me into the abyss, where the pieces of dead titans had been thrown, a place that was short of absolute nothing..."

"The abyss? Then how did you get to hell?" Noah asked, more curious than concerned at this point, despite her depressed face.

"That's something else, the story of how I met Lucifer."

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