"Yao..."
Whether she had sensed Luo Zhen's feelings or not, courage suddenly welled up in Aurora's eyes as she gazed at him.
"It's... it's all right!"
Aurora no longer seemed as lost as before. Instead, she spoke as though she had made up her mind.
"You needn't trouble yourself over this. This is my fate, and I will bring everything to an end!"
Aurora was encouraging Luo Zhen—and herself.
"Aurora, you...?"
Luo Zhen was stunned.
Clearly, he had never expected that the timid, antisocial vampire girl would summon such courage at a time like this.
But some people were like that. When they were alone, they would lose heart. Yet when they saw someone else losing heart, they would tell themselves that they could not go on like this and had to pull themselves together.
Aurora was exactly that kind of person.
Thus, the problem that had been troubling her suddenly seemed less important after she saw Luo Zhen's uncertainty.
"I am Aurora Florestina."
Just as she had when she first met Luo Zhen, Aurora spoke the name to which she clung so tightly.
"Even if my fate cannot be changed, I am still me. Whether I am the vessel of the Fourth True Ancestor or a part of the 'Blazing Night Lord,' this one thing will never change."
Aurora's voice was still timid, but it now held a resolve unlike anything before.
Looking at Aurora like this, Luo Zhen was genuinely speechless.
"No matter what I am, I'm still me. This one thing will never change... Is that it?"
Those words suddenly made Luo Zhen realize something.
The Luo Zhen of today was far too unlike himself.
Because of Mashu, Luo Zhen had always treated improving his magical power as his top priority. He had come to this world