Your Highness...

What else can we do?

After agonizing over it for so long, nothing beats meeting in person.

How is your health now?

Maria blinked, looking at the millet in front of her.

After realizing that there was Daemon aura beneath the entire Great Wilderness City, Maria began her plan.

In a sense, the blood incident was an unexpected outcome of her plan...

But that's not important.

The important thing is that the plan ultimately succeeded... but in a rather difficult-to-describe way.

At that time, Xi, Shu, Ling, and Ji, who were present, were all separated from Sui because of her blood...

This actually made Maria feel somewhat uneasy.

In a sense, Maria forcibly took the retinues of other Great Ones and brought them to her side.

If they are adversaries, then it doesn't matter.

Only...

Selene is Maria's friend...

I stole my friend's child...

This is really...

"Well enough."

Shu didn't know what Maria was struggling with; she just felt that she had indeed become much more relaxed over the years.

They were also somewhat incredulous after discovering that they had lost contact with the person they were dating.

But after getting used to it, they gradually adapted to this kind of life.

After all, they also discovered that after the threat of age was removed, their lives didn't seem much different from usual.

If there's any difference... it's that they no longer have to worry about whether everything they've done will disappear after they leave.

Apart from that, there is no difference.

And they also know perfectly well whose blessing they have for living the life they enjoy today...

"I've actually wanted to see you again all these years... but to be honest, when I actually saw you, I didn't know what to say."

Shu shook his head, his words filled with helplessness.

That's life.

I thought we'd have endless things to talk about and countless thanks to each other after we met, but when we met again, I found that all my words were stuck in my throat.

What do you want to say?

What should I say?

It seems like none of them exist...

It seems like none of that is necessary...

There's no need for further explanation; we can simply meet.

Meeting in person... is enough to speak volumes.

"Then there's no need for further explanation."

Maria remained the same as when Shu first met her, calm and indifferent to everything.

This composure reminded Shu of his investigations into him over the years.

After a long silence, she quietly took out a memory card.

"Um?"

"This contains the information you asked Yan to investigate for you back then... Although Yan has almost forgotten about this matter over the years, the contents have still been preserved."

As he spoke, Shu handed the palm-sized storage device to Maria.

Maria blinked and looked at the black box in front of her.

After a long silence, she looked at Shu with a puzzled expression.

"What's this?"

"Memory?"

Shu blinked, looking somewhat puzzled.

Didn't I just say that?

"What is memory...?"

Maria asked again, her clear face showing absolutely no trace of a joke.

She genuinely had no idea what Shu was talking about.

This gesture stunned Shu.

She herself felt that she was actually an old woman and couldn't quite understand the various instruments that young people liked to play with.

But Maria asked this question...

"You really don't know?"

"These instruments did not exist in my time."

Maria spoke frankly and calmly.

She genuinely didn't know.

When she was in Lungmen, she showed signs of not being able to adapt to modern life.

After the reappearance of New Yharnam, she returned to her original life.

Now that the millet has suddenly produced this high-tech device, although it is an old item from decades ago, it is still too new for Maria.

I don't understand at all.

This left Shu feeling helpless, but also diminished some of his awe of Maria.

She truly hadn't expected Maria to have such an old-fashioned side.

After hesitating for a moment, she leaned closer and whispered to Maria what the machine was and how to use it.

Maria listened very attentively.

The two heads were slightly touching.

It was also not far away.

The smiling Banshees queen and the equally smiling Doll silently watched the two heads pressed together.

Without saying a word...

332

Chapter 332 Your Highness...

While Maria and Shu were still figuring out how to use this so-called storage disk, a gentle laugh drifted over from the side.

What are you doing?

It's the voice of Doll.

Another hand rested on Maria's shoulder.

"Studying something..."

Maria didn't notice anything unusual. She just kept staring at the tiny thing in front of her, which was no bigger than the palm of her hand but supposedly contained various high-precision documents collected over nearly a hundred years. A hint of curiosity appeared on her face.

The pace of progress is astonishing...

"Yeah?"

The Doll's voice continued, and at the same time, another hand landed on Maria's shoulder.

"Do you understand now?"

"... No."

Maria paused for a few moments, then shook her head slightly.

Clearly, for someone as old-fashioned as her, these new technologies were still somewhat difficult to adapt to in a short period of time.

So she made her choice...

"Doll, why don't you study these things?"

Maria leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes slightly.

The Doll beside Maria always quietly obeyed her requests.

"Your command, Hunter..."

After saying that, she reached out and silently accepted the storage disk.

After a few pauses, Maria suddenly realized something.

At this moment, he had one hand resting on each of his left and right shoulders.

That outstretched hand belongs to Doll.

That...

"Um?"

Maria turned her head to the right and saw a smiling Doll.

She looked at Maria, her smile unchanged.

And to her left...

"It's been... a long time!"

She is a smiling, slender woman...

The atmosphere became somewhat eerie.

Maria remained seated in her place.

On the other side was Shu, who looked completely puzzled.

The Doll stood quietly behind Maria's right, as always.

To Maria's left, the gentle and noble Queen of the Banshees sat quietly.

To be honest, it had been more than a decade since Maria last saw him.

In reality, countless years have passed.

It's clear that the blood transfusion she performed on the other party still has an effect.

Even after countless years, Lamaline remained just as she had been when she first met Maria —slender, graceful, and beautiful...

The black dress makes her look more mature compared to her previous outfits.

Her graceful figure was veiled by soft gauze, almost completely concealing her skin.

Even so, that astonishing perfection can still be subtly outlined by the hem of her dress as she moves.

If I had to use a single word to describe Lamaline, then perhaps only one word would best describe her...

A resentful widow...

Yes.

At this Lamaline sat beside Maria, staring intently at the wicked woman and wicked husband she had longed for day and night. Under the table, her hand gently grasped Maria's, just as Maria had done to her in the past.

Slender fingers slowly overlapped and intertwined with Maria's fingers.

When rubbed, it produces an unusual tactile sensation.