Chapter 198

[Die for me, please.]

The god begged me, weeping. The arrogant creature he'd been when I first saw him was nowhere to be found. He was weak now, and because of that, he felt less like a god and more like a human.

[Everything's been twisted out of shape. You're the only way to rein it back in. Because it started from you.]

The god kept repeating the same words over and over. It was getting hard to listen to him blame me. I raked a hand through my hair in irritation and asked.

[And you've twisted nothing yourself?]

Talking with Julia had left me suspicious about Queen Erinhunt's very existence.

The god had told me that craving more than the life allotted to you was what twisted time. But according to what Julia had said, Queen Erinhunt was, herself, a being that twisted time.

Not even her own daughter…