The scenery passing by outside was starting to get brighter. It was out of Timur’s mist.

“Haa…….”

It felt like her inside was open.

“…… Abella.”

“I want to leave.”

Abella murmured.

That was all. Enoch looked at Abella, who kept her mouth shut without saying anything, and covered his forehead with his hand. Seeing Abella like that, Enoch was also upset and his heart seemed to burn to black.

He doesn’t know what to do.

“Why don’t you just throw it all away and leave.”

Enoch asked in a low voice. Abella smiled brightly instead of answering. Can she? No matter how Abella’s circumstances changed, she still had the goodness that Carlo had bestowed upon her, and her promises to him were as solid as rock. Simons wasn’t ready yet.

He still needed Abella.

Abella closed her eyes.

It seems that Carlo was drawn like an afterimage. Her one and only brother.

‘Sister. I wanted to see you. How have you been?’

He affectionately asks her regards.

‘Are you eating well? If you lose more weight…….’

His voice seems to be coming at her.

Obviously, if it was Carlo, he would say so. So the more reason she couldn’t.

“I still can’t because I don’t yet have a sense of selfishness.”

Abella answered slowly. Enoch couldn’t hold his breath again this time at the vague answer. To soothe his bitter stomach, Enoch opened a candy and put it in his mouth. The sweet taste lingered in his mouth, but his mouth was still bitter.

*

It was that afternoon that Cade went to visit Yuri.

“Still, if you know more about Abella than I do.”

“…… I know nothing, Your Majesty.”

Yuri denied Cade’s words. In fact, Yuri knows Abella from Vincent, but she doesn’t know about Abella from Timur. Abella in Vincent was a dazzling and shiny person, but Abella in Timur…….

“I just……. thinks she is dying.”

Cade snorted.

“What if I send Abella back to Vincent?”

“She won’t go back. Until she fulfills her purpose of coming here.”

Cade stroked his forehead. As Yuri pointed out. If it was Abella’s stubbornness, she wouldn’t leave until Simons grew up and took over Amerigo.

Cade got up and stood in front of the window. As his breath deepened in his suffocating heart, a cloud of steam formed on the windowpane. Like the mist that covered Timur.

He had come to Yuri with the intention of grabbing the last rope. At this rate, there was no guarantee that Abella would never attempt suicide again.

The child will just rot away, sitting on Amerigo.

Cade clenched his fists in helplessness.

“…… Do you know what Abella likes?”

“I do not know. Abella in Vincent loves the sun……. She likes to sing……. She also liked to dance. She also liked to go to good restaurants…….”

Cade pressed his fist to his forehead.

It was like the old Abella Cade knew. If Abella’s season was a bleak winter now, her season was originally a refreshing summer. Cade sighed and rubbed his face.

“What next? And now what did she like?”

“I don’t think she likes anything right now.”

Yuri spat out the truth.

“She wouldn’t be happy to eat, and she wouldn’t be happy to play…….”

“Shit.”

Cade murmured curses.

What he thought were things to help Abella turned out to be nothing in the end. So, what has he been running for all this time? Public opinion turned their face upside down, revealing the ambivalence as he wanted.

People flocked to the temple to demand an investigation, and Cade pressured the press to continue publishing articles about that.

It was becoming more and more resonant.

According to the high priest, many of the neutrals in the temple are coming over their side. As Cade arranged, Skellus would regain its original status.

But, Abella…….

They said you wouldn’t be able to fully understand others until you stepped on their shoes. That’s right. Cade didn’t understand Abella at all. All of what he was thinking and what he was hoping for was all Cade’s own misinterpretations.

Will Abella be okay when he takes off the shackles of Skellus?

Shit.

Stupid Cade.

*

So is she by his side now?

Arsene had to admit. The fact that he lost fiercely in one game against Abella.

It may be arrogant to compare her life to a fleeting game, but for Arsene it was.