Banquet and Nighttime Talk

Well then.

The "Lord" after my name was just gone.

Linsey did not mind Arona dropping the honorific from his name. Or rather, the believer girl's reaction was exactly as he had expected.

Still, this situation made one sigh at the influence of skills—or faith—upon a person.

"So this is a believer..."

Bena naturally noticed Arona and Linsey's reactions. The future King of the Righteous regarded them with some curiosity.

"Arona, you know Linsey too?"

Arona immediately nodded.

"Yes. Mr. Linsey saved my life before."

"Saved your life? Wasn't Nolan the one who brought you here?" Bena looked confused before realizing something. "Did you encounter other danger before coming to this world?"

Arona answered at once.

"Yes. It was an attack by a lake..."

The Blind Girl recounted her story to the future King of the Righteous.

Listening from the side, Linsey found it stranger and stranger.

In Arona's account, whenever she might have described scenes from the future, she either replaced them with pronouns or left them unmentioned.

Arona was deliberately concealing the fact that they had come from the future timeline.

Linsey: Arona, why are you hiding it from Bena?

Arona: If something like this is casually revealed, it will definitely interfere with history. I cannot affect the destiny Lord Bena was meant to follow just to satisfy my own selfish desires!

Linsey: We are most likely only inside a Time Silhouette. What we do now cannot affect the past.

Arona: I cannot profane my faith. Lord Bena's path is sacred and must not be changed in any way!

Linsey: ...Your faith truly has not changed at all.

Arona: This is fate, and also a trial of my faith. Linsey, I will strive to do what I should.

On the Friend Channel, Arona displayed an unprecedentedly