Chapter 164

"Might I take Maxim's mercenary licence?"

"Oh, this? I have no use for such a thing — please, take it!"

Angela pulled the licence out without hesitation and held it straight out to me.

I accepted it with a satisfied expression.

"Wonderful, thank you. I was actually in need of a mercenary licence."

"Of course! Oh — and after everything you've given me, I really should share at least a little of it—"

"Please, no. We're managing perfectly well. Hurry home — Angie must be missing her mother terribly."

"Snff… To think a day like this could come for me. I really am happy."

Angela was weeping and laughing at the same time.

I laughed with her, feeling the kinship of one mother to another — a solidarity I couldn't have explained rationally but felt with full certainty.

"Oh, and — if you ever need help with a divorce, go…