A No-Holds-Barred Confession Session (4K) / Chapter 90: What Should Have Been an Ordinary, Unremarkable Day (4K5)

After hesitating again and again, she glanced at the Vouivre who had wandered off somewhere in the distance before finally speaking in a low voice.

"One more thing, Teacher." She stammered, looking nothing like the decisive department head she was at Rhine Lab. "You... should probably be a little more careful. No matter what, Saria is part of Rhine Lab. If she leaves, it'll be very... troublesome for me to carry out my work. If you take her away too, I don't have any objections, it's just..."

"You still need to do your best to protect yourself," Nastya said softly. Once she confirmed that the Incantation had not activated, she breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "If there's another one, the former Banshee Lord probably won't be happy."

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A question mark appeared over Gerald's head.

A Frank Discussion

Pegasus understood one thing very well.

When someone received a large amount of information in a short period of time—information they could not immediately digest in full, and which came from only a single perspective—the best choice was to set it aside for now and wait until they had gathered more complete information.

Unlike problems that could be resolved cleanly and decisively, this was something that required caution—because even he could not guarantee what would happen if he continued walking through both the past and the present at once.

The one thing he could be certain of was that he had finally figured out who had asked Kannott to deliver this sword into his hands.

"Lamalien Ducanfalis." He spoke the name without hesitation.

The words became a concept, flowing into the Incantation engraved upon his chest. A promise from a century ago returned to the place it had been pledged—the River Valley that belonged to the Banshees.

Unfortunately, aside from