Chapter 192

Elionis clenched his fist, as if to suppress his own wretched heart.

Just what was it, Ophelia, that made you wear such a sorrowful face?

Looking back on it now, only bitter regret remained.

At least in that moment, even if it meant telling a lie, he should have wiped the sorrow from her face and let her speak.

But it was already a past long since ended.

"...It's all right, Ophelia."

A grotesque longing welled up once more in Elionis's hollow eyes.

"There's no such thing as something that can't be undone. Just wait a little longer — just a little more. I'm sorry it's taken so long."

Once he finally, fully brought her back to life, he would hear out, without fail, every word she'd been left unable to say.

He was still lost in thought when—

He sensed a presence outside the garden.

When Elionis opened the…