Chapter 14: A Chance Encounter
Beautiful hair made of fine silver strands. Deep purple eyes like the amethyst.
She was, not yet twenty… but I suppose in her late teens. Her skin was pale, but not sickly like Roux’s. Her refined features gave her an intelligent air. She had the kind of beauty that would have had me bewitched if not for the current circumstances.
She was shorter than me and looked very dainty, but the energy I felt radiating from her was more overwhelming than it felt a short while ago at a distance.
Maybe even Roux who cannot sense positive energy in people found her impressive, for she was rendered speechless.
As for me, who could see her sublime beauty with nary a shred of darkness from up close, wondered if I really had no right to live in this world if such a beauty deemed me worthy of death.
Even so, I shall never consider the option of… resigning myself to my fate.
Luckily enough, my body was able to withstand the energy.
No. Maybe I had deluded myself into thinking that I would be incinerated if I ever got any closer. The energy radiated may not possess any destructive powers at all for all I know. Come to think of it, even in the stories I read before, there was never any depiction of an undead being annihilated through mere proximity.
Nevertheless, I could not stop myself from shaking.