The chirping of insects seeped into the space between the two of them.
For a long while, the girl who resembled the moon could not produce a single word.
She remained struck speechless, then her lips twitched.
At last, with trembling eyes, she silently stared at the man’s hand.
A silver pendant hung there.
It was not something painstakingly crafted by a master artisan.
It was a necklace worth a few gold coins, the sort that could be made in any ordinary workshop.
If there was anything special about it, perhaps it was the Sepia Flower embossed upon its surface.
Even so, Seria could barely breathe.
Frozen in place, she simply stared intently at the ornament held in the man’s hand.
Because to one particular girl, it was the only treasure in the world.
“H-How……”
That was the question the girl barely managed to squeeze out.
Her voice was filled with disbelief as she gave a small shake of her head.
“There’s no way…… no way you could ever find it……”
A fragmented denial spilled from Seria’s lips.
It was a perfectly reasonable doubt.
She had left it somewhere its whereabouts should have remained unknown forever.
So how had that man found it?
No.
Why had he gone so far just to find it?
She was nothing more than one pathetic,…