Chapter 211: There are truly a lot of roads leading to Rome; as long as we find the roads
What if it was the author girl--
"Oh, believe me, sweetheart," he grasped my cheek and stroked them, looking at my eyes firmly as if telling me to erase any unnecessary thought. "I thought about that countless times," he said. "But the conclusion I reached had always been the same; no matter whether it’s truly you or if it’s actually someone else, my heart still goes to you. Only you."
"But..." I bit my lips. "Wouldn’t you think of a girl when talking about...making a child?"
Instead of responding with words, Natha pulled away slightly and tilted his head, silently looking at me with a smile as if he was waiting for something.
For an answer.
Oh!
"That’s..." I turned my head toward the artifact chamber. "That’s what...the Egg is for?"
He pulled my hand gently and opened the door to the chamber where the Egg was snuggly awaiting in its preservation tube. "Honestly, while I was in the other world with you, I didn’t think about that at all."
"You mean, about procreation?"
"Mm," a nostalgic smile carved on his lips. "All I could think about was you. How happy I was when I talked with you. How fast my heart beat when our hands were almost touching. How I want to stay by your side as long as I could,"
The hand holding me was tightening slightly, and I slipped my fingers between his, holding tighter.