Chapter 437: Hold Me Again
Fate Questioning – The Listening Test!
Actually, it wasn’t much different from the Fate Questioning of the Sea of Knowledge. The only change was that the questions were replaced with dialogue content. Compared to straightforward questions, this added a lot more information: Sonya could discern that the speakers were herself and the Witch, and the conversation took place at least ten years later, because her voice had become richer yet not thin, husky yet not dark… It was like the tone Delarose would use when playing a mature beauty. Just by listening, Sonya could picture herself as a rose with thorns.
The Witch was the same. Her voice no longer had the youthful innocence it currently possessed—even when she uttered the word ‘revenge,’ it lacked the purity one would expect.
‘Revenge’ is a word tinged with a fairytale quality, much like ‘love.’ How could someone harbor love or hate for four or five years like in a TV drama?
Life dilutes everything; all intense emotions eventually fade to plainness.
However, when the Witch spoke the word ‘revenge,’ it was as calm as discussing dinner plans. This indicated that revenge wasn’t a fleeting impulse for her but a mission she must complete, an obstacle she had to overcome to continue living, and a life goal intertwined with her interests.
The key point was that when the Witch said the word, it seemed to include her—did they have some common target for revenge?
Sonya looked at Deya, only to find Deya equally puzzled. After the three of them removed their headphones and exchanged looks, Ashe coughed deliberately and asked solemnly, “Do you want to discuss this together, or handle it yourselves?”
If it had been just Ashe and the sword Princess, Ashe would have unceremoniously asked her directly what juicy gossip she had just heard. But since the dynamic in the team was currently framed as “Observer vs. sword Princess and Witch,” Ashe had to stick to the script.