Chapter 25: Soft and Sweet
It happened while Jincheon was quietly watching the Oracle.
“Why are you staring at me?”
At some point, she had turned her head and was now looking straight at him.
Jincheon pretended not to be fazed.
“It’s nothing. It’s just, before that man—no, the former Palace Master—gave me this orb, he said something.”
“What did he say, I wonder?”
She didn’t seem to care about his slip of the tongue—or that he’d used former instead of previous.
“He said you need a special kind of energy to touch this red orb without dying. That he passed it on to me. Something like inner energy... well, not exactly inner energy, but something similar.”
“A special kind of energy?”
“Yes. Do I have it? And does such a thing even exist?”
“You said he gave it to you.”
“...Honestly, I don’t know.”