Now that things had come to this, he might as well cultivate first

"Alright, alright. We can talk about all that later."

Leon smoothed Wanda's long hair.

"Wanda, you still have school tomorrow, don't you? Hurry and return the book, then go home and get some sleep."

Hugging the spellbook, Wanda suddenly remembered after his reminder that it was getting late.

"Right, right, I need to return the book quickly. Diana, Kara, when you come to New York, you have to come see me."

Wanda waved goodbye to the two of them as well.

Diana waved back. "Alright. Kara and I will be moving to New York soon. It won't be long."

"You're moving to New York too?" Wanda stopped walking. "Where will you be living? Maybe we'll be close by."

"We don't know yet. Kara and I haven't been to New York, but we'll be staying at Leon's house. Wanda, you should know where that is." Diana said frankly.

Wanda froze.

"At Leon's house..."

So Diana and Kara were going to live at Leon's house.

They lived together too. Perhaps they had already done plenty of things that should or should not have happened.

Wanda stared blankly at Diana.

Then she recalled how, just moments ago, seeing the three of them nestled together had made her heart ache.

She touched her chest.

It still throbbed faintly.

But the numb soreness and suffocating pain, as though a giant hammer had struck her, had almost vanished.

Thinking back to what she had seen still made her feel awful.

Yet it was no longer so intense.

Wanda fell into thought.

It was probably because she had not known Diana and Kara before.

That was why she had been so angry.

But now, she knew that both girls had suffered terribly, even more terribly than she had.

So she could no longer hate them, nor could