Moonlight shone upon them, and waves crashed against the dock as though celebrating this moment. When the pink radiance faded, the dagger vanished with it. Sivie lowered her head to look at her hands, then raised it to look at Shade, only to avoid his gaze again:
"Sorry, I'm really sorry. For what I said just now, and for what I did."
Seeing that she even stammered as she spoke, Shade knew that Sivie had completely recovered. It was just that, perhaps because the curse had only just been lifted, the Four Elements within her were in utter chaos. And even though Sivie had recovered her true memories, they still remained in this real yet false spacetime.
"It's fine. It's all fine. You don't need to apologize to me."
Shade looked into her eyes and spoke with great seriousness:
"Some things are definitely better said than kept hidden in your heart. Besides, you made a lot of sense. There really are things I did wrong."
As he spoke, he sensed Sivie's body temperature seemingly rising. Looking more closely, he saw that even her skin had taken on an unnatural flush.
"What's happening?"
He reached out to touch Sivie's forehead, but the Great Witch of Light panicked and slapped Shade's hand away, then staggered as she covered her forehead.
Like a Ring Arcanist on the verge of losing control, the growth of her Soul Power and the complete disorder of the Four Elements were making her consciousness grow hazy.
What was worse was that Shade could actually sense a very obvious power of "Desire" within her, something he had not sensed before:
"So after the curse was lifted, the power of Desire manifested within her in its most primal form?"
He reached out, intending to cast Moon Fire to purify the