Vol 2. Chapter 26
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A few days later, at the Noart estate.
“Sigh...”
I sat on the garden swing, lost in thought.
“I miss Zahid... He’s grown up so well, and now we’re separated again? What the hell is this...”
I kept pushing off with my feet, swinging back and forth when—
A small vine started moving slowly along the garden wall.
“Ah!”
I jumped down and grabbed the letter tied to the end of the vine. It was a message from Yuta.
We couldn’t meet in person in case we got caught, so we always kept in touch through notes like this.
Zahid is safe. He’s sneaking around the Temple like it’s his own house, just as I planned.
When the High Priest is absent, when Yuta is distracting people, and when the guards are bound to be careless—Zahid was working hard whenever those three conditions lined up.