Chapter 401: Interlude: Gold and Silver (6)
0% Seria was acting suspicious.
The moment I heard that news, I recalled the blood-stained letter.
Every written word glowed with a ghastly light—and its contents were just as horrifying.
How could she ask me to chop up her body and bury it in the ground?
In response to that madness-filled plea, I couldn’t say a thing.
Because the fate that awaited my beloved junior was too cruel to bear.
So, over and over I vowed: I would never allow Seria to suffer such an end, no matter what it took.
No matter what it took.
I still had a year’s grace period left.
Finding a way to save her within that time was all I needed to do. Perhaps we could somehow move towards a happy future if I succeeded.
But, deeply buried in my heart, there was a lingering unease I couldn’t shake off.