Chapter 169: Sunrise

TRISTAN:

“What kind of question is that?”

I had known Samalah since we were children. We grew up together. How can she ask me such a silly question?

“I know you did… You had only come to like me based on what you see, right?... You haven’t given much thought about liking me for me…”

Samalah… Wasn’t she the one who told me I shouldn’t like her? She said she’d never like me back, and that love is nothing but a silly, fleeting illusion… She told me that our bodies are only meant for pleasure and nothing more…

Seeing her cry like this, I couldn’t tell her to recall all those things that she had said.

Actually, she had been breaking the rules she had set upon herself as of lately, and this included raising a child.

She had a very hard childhood, and the real reason she studied potions and spells was to make sure she never conceived a child.

Sama