Chapter 34

Ah, so it could look that way.

It was a perspective she had not considered.

She realized it only after hearing it.

She had kept her mouth shut the whole time about the circumstances that had brought her here, so to the evil spirit, who knew only the past, it was understandable that he would misunderstand.

But setting aside understanding, her excuse to him was feeble.

“There is no century-spanning romance like this.

If you have lived with a man once, isn’t that enough?

So what is so regrettable and sorrowful that you are clinging to him again now, two thousand years later?

Evrena, do you love him that much?”

It was an awkward question.

Do I love Kirix?

Surely not.

What could she know about a man she had known only a few days, enough to speak of love?

Even the very fact that she had come to learn…