Chapter 89: Blessing in Disguise (2)
I had to absorb her.
If not this time, then the next. Someday... if I'm to save her. But can I really revive her when we meet again? Could I protect her?
Making such a promise felt impossible.
Should I stop her from attempting assassination?
Even if I tried, there was no guarantee she would listen.
In fact, it was already clear she wouldn't. Gith-Za-Rai the necromancer had dismissed my warnings as madness, refused to believe in the loop, and reveled in her macabre sense of joy. She had even joked about preferring the company of crazy skeletons.
Her Affection for me had risen because of it.
How would she react if I explained this incomprehensible situation to her? If I told her about the mysterious knight emerging from the void to kill her?
She'd laugh, probably insist on seeing it with her own eyes, and find it all amusing. Her Affection points would climb even higher. Her already bizarre view of me as a mad skeleton would only deepen. I didn't need to experience it to know.
What if I somehow succeeded in stopping her? Or prevented the emperor's procession from being interrupted?
No, no matter what I do, it's uncertain.