Chapter 113

"...... If something like that had really happened, I would have found my lover again, one way or another. No matter how well she'd hidden, no matter how long it took, whatever it took to do it."

It was nothing but a fake story I'd just made up on the spot. And yet he was venting his indignation over his imagined self's neglect, as though refuting some real event that had actually happened.

Puhaha. Seeing his face so unusually serious, I couldn't help letting out a small laugh.

"It's just imagination, you know. I already know that much myself, by now. What kind of person you are, Your Grace."

I answered lightly, but honestly, I meant it.

I couldn't say why, but I felt certain that if it were Cain, he would find his person somehow, even if it took decades to do it.

Even at my reassurance, Cain's brow…