Nightmare licked the corner of her mouth and steered the conversation back:
"Enough idle chatter. Thou hast yet to answer my question. Why hast thou seemed so... downcast all day?"
"Well... that..."
Greg hesitated.
Ever since learning that morning that Lily Carlo was actually Lilith Kahn, his feelings had been a tangled mess. It was almost as though some heartless woman had toyed with his sincere affection.
No, a heartless woman really had toyed with him!
He thought back over everything he had experienced with her.
The female lead herself had posed as a background character to trick him into giving her affection and information. After using that information to defeat Victoria, she had even smugly boasted, "Her Highness is far more formidable than you imagined!"
"Tch, that damn woman!"
"Oh~? A damn woman?"
Nightmare's ears instantly perked up. Gossip-hungry excitement gleamed in her dark green eyes, and her voice brimmed with an eagerness to stir up trouble:
"That sounds like quite a tale! Come, tell me everything! These mortal entanglements of love and hate interest me most! Whose daughter was she? What made her so wicked? Did she deceive thy heart, or make off with thy fortune? Could it be... she deceived thy heart and stole thy fortune?"
Greg shot Nightmare an irritated glare. "Shut up! This isn't some romantic entanglement! And there was no fortune to steal! I just... just got played by some troublesome woman!"
Of course, he would not explain the details.
Knowing Nightmare, if he told her the whole story, this goddess with her twisted sense of humor would keep bringing it up to mock him for a very long time.
"Oh? Played?"
Nightmare grew even more interested, pacing around Greg's feet with her tail twitching excitedly:
"Someone capable of fooling my other half? Now