Created a Reverse Harem in a Doomed World (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 134

“Huh.”

I was startled—it was an answer I hadn’t even considered. Especially since Aston, who had always spoken casually to me among the party members, had just used formal speech.

‘Did I really say that?’

I couldn’t even remember. Besides, wasn’t that kind of comforting remark something anyone could have said? Thinking back to the gloomy Aston I’d first met, anyone would’ve told him to hang in there and keep living.

“But it was such a trivial comfort…”

“Even so.”

‘He’s switched back to informal speech.’

Perhaps I was too flustered. My heart felt as calm as if it had been frozen in a freezer and then taken out—so calm it was unsettling. I studied Aston carefully.

“For me… no one had ever said anything like that before. You were the first, Duke. Telling me to live, that it was okay to live.”

‘Was I really?’

No matter how hard I tried to recall, all I could remember was that rude remark: “If you’re going to die, don’t do it in front of me.”

Yet, to Aston, it must have been an unforgettable, precious memory.

“That’s why I decided to fight alongside you—to join your cause of saving me and others too.”

It was only because of the quest, though.

Aston’s treating me like some noble hero made my face burn.

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