In other words, if the divine object disappeared, the Awakener holding the divine power would go mad, and the continent protected by the mad Awakener would also be destroyed.
“Are you telling me right now…”
Lakrahan asked incredulously.
“That you have lost your staff?”
At Lakrahan’s question, Bercheria slowly shook her head.
“If I know where it is, I can’t say I’ve lost it.”
Bercheria touched the wall of the tower.
“The staff is here.”
“……What?”
Lakrahan’s forehead wrinkled.
“Is this tower…”
“Yes. This tower is Bercheria’s staff, and the hidden divine object.”
Her red lips parted thinly.
“Even though it was right in front of me, I didn’t know.”
Divine objects owned by the guardian gods changed their appearance as needed, so humans were not properly aware of their existence, except for one.
Everyone knew about Bercheria’s staff.
Since the goddess of weather, Bercheria, had the most potent power among the gods, her divine object did not change its appearance unless it was a special case.
Precisely, it couldn’t change.
If she continued to use her ability without the staff, Bercheria would be consumed by power and go mad faster than any other god.
For that reason, the staff became more symbolic for Bercheria than any other gods’ divine objects.
“How could you live without the staff?”
“Strictly speaking, I didn’t live without it. I was always with it.”
“It was a true prison then.”
“And one more thing.”
Bercheria slowly walked to stand in front of Lakrahan.
“While staying here, I slowly lost my power.”
“What do you mean by losing power?”
“Because I was born as a god’s Awakener, I am mentally more mature than humans. I can understand the ways of the world and how people live without having to see them.”
Everything was naturally realized without learning.
Even though her body was trapped in this stuffy and dirty tower.
“So I know about my ability well. But as the years went by, I couldn’t stop my ability from disappearing.”
“……Was it your mother’s doing?”
“I’m not sure about that yet.”
Since she couldn’t spill everything to Lakrahan yet, she moderately spoke and moderately hid.
Although it was an ambiguous answer because she couldn’t outright lie.
“When I escaped from this tower, I had no intention of coming back. Or if I did come back, I thought it would be in the very distant future.”
It was a time when she had to make a choice.
Whether to continue living trapped here or to go out and end her short life.
“Why are you back now?”
“A variable happened.”
“Variable?”
“Yes. I met you.”
Lakrahan blinked his deep and dark eyes, as if he didn’t understand.
“You mean, I’m the variable?”
“Yes.”
He didn’t understand what she was saying.
Even though he couldn’t read the flow at all, his heart beat for no reason.
Fresh air flowed into the tower.
The wind that had ruffled her blonde hair again shook his hair.
There was an illusion that his fate with Bercheria was strongly intertwined.
The sensation when he first held her as she fell was revived at his fingertips.
Her thin body and limp golden hair.
The mysteriously narrowed eyes.
“Lakrahan. When I’m with you, my lost abilities come back.”
This was a story he hadn’t expected at all.
“Does the ability return just by being there?”
“I don’t know what’s going on either. Why it’s you, or if it’s possible with someone else. But what’s certain is.”
Bercheria took a step toward him and narrowed the distance.
Their faces touched, and her body scent came in heavily.
“I’ve laid bare all my secrets to you.”
“Wait a moment, Bercheria…”
“So what I’m saying is.”
Bercheria cut off his words.
When descending this tower, she was filled with egoism.
She just wanted to get out of here, and wanted to be free.
But after meeting the children, and gradually regaining strength due to Lakrahan, she started to realize who she was.
I am Bercheria, born as a divine vessel, and there is no such thing as coincidence in the world.
Regaining strength due to Lakrahan, and escaping the tower.
She didn’t know what these crude coincidences were trying to say now, but one thing was clear.
Now was the time for Bercheria to make an effort.
She couldn’t waste these opportunities.
Perhaps the divine was testing her one last time.
So Bercheria intended to do everything possible to find the divine water.
“Lakrahan. What I want is one thing.”
“…Tell me.”
Whatever it was.
Whatever sacrifice it took.
Bercheria had to focus on regaining her strength.
“We must be together. Until I regain all the abilities I lost.”
Without hesitation in her words, Lakrahan clenched his fist so hard that his veins on the back of his hand stood out.
Her golden eyes, quietly colliding, seemed to pierce deep inside him.
“My offer has been the same from the beginning. Don’t leave me for a moment, Lakrahan.”
Feelings he couldn’t explain were slowly rising within him.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
