Estelle did not know how long she had been unconscious before she slowly came to.
Pain tore through her body. She found herself propped against a relatively intact boulder.
Her wounds appeared to have been treated, at least enough to keep them from worsening.
Someone saved me?
Estelle jerked her head up. Black's handsome, smiling face came into view.
"Awake? You're tougher than you look, Miss Estelle."
Black shook the nearly empty bottle of Healing Pills in his hand.
"Was... was it you who saved me?"
Estelle's voice was hoarse. Looking at Black, she felt warmth rise in her chest.
Clearly, Black had saved her.
He had even bandaged her wounds and treated her injuries.
Estelle touched a dressed wound on her arm, and her cheeks flushed.
Under those circumstances, Black could have left her there. He could even have... finished her off.
Then everything she had obtained in the Illusion Star Secret Realm would have been his.
Including the precious Nirvana Divine Source.
But he had not.
Instead, he had taken care to save her.
"It was no trouble."
Black shrugged.
"I couldn't just watch a beauty like you die, could I? What a waste that would be."
A faint blush appeared on Estelle's pale face. She spoke softly.
"Thank you... Arthas, he..."
"Arthas?"
Black shook his head.
"When I got there, you were the only one lying on the ground. I didn't see any Arthas."
He didn't see him?
Estelle had no reason to doubt Black.
Arthas must have woken before she did and fled.
Perhaps Black had arrived so quickly that Arthas had run before he could finish her off.
In that case, Black had saved her yet again.
With Black's "help," Estelle barely regained the ability to walk.
When she and Black emerged from the Secret