The journey back was not short.
Had I been alone, I could have covered the distance before long. But now I had a companion beside me—a girl who had only just regained consciousness and whose body and mind were close to total exhaustion.
She was my flesh and blood.
Until recently, she had been known by the name ‘Greed.’ But now that her authority had been taken from her, it would not be wrong to regard her as a powerless young woman. No matter how much I urged her forward, there was inevitably a limit to her pace.
Moreover, there was no reason to hurry any more than this.
Had time been pressing, the girl would already have been in my arms. I had deliberately refrained because I felt my flesh and blood needed time to compose herself.
The scene I had witnessed only moments before.
When confronted with Delphirem, my flesh and blood had prostrated herself and trembled like a condemned sinner. It was a clear contrast to her former self, who had proudly claimed to be evil’s faithful servant.
Why in the world?
I had not understood then, and I understood no better now. Was she…