Chapter 350: The End of All (3)
"Kim Woo-Jin," Ria called his name.
At that moment, unable to meet his eyes, Ria's eyes fell upon the blue forget-me-not in a vase on the wooden desk, where she stared at its tilted head.
Deculein offered no words.
As the silence stretched on, small hopes like droplets and what-if thoughts bubbled up in Ria's heart...
“... Ah.”
But the moment she looked up at him and glanced at his face from the corner of her eye, she knew it was not to be.
"Kimurin? What is that, Ria?" Leo asked.
Because it was a name that people of this continent would not even know, the reaction of Leo was entirely natural and the same could be said of Deculein.
At that moment, Deculein was utterly emotionless, certainly not like a person whose own name—unknown to anyone in this world—had been called, and his expression, like Leo's, betrayed no knowledge of whether the word was a name or a thing.
Despite it all, Ria tried to read Deculein’s reaction, attempting to read even the wrinkles on his face, the beating of his heart, the dilation of his iris, the movement of his pupils, and the subtle changes in the atmosphere with the skills she had learned and cultivated as an adventurer living on this continent...
"There is no time for idleness," Deculein said.
Ria finally became aware of reality and realized it had been her delusion.