“In fact, the monster is a sacrifice for the goddess Saraph.”

“A sacrifice? Do you know what you’re saying now, Duke Daniel?”

“I told you one truth since you seemed to want the truth, but you still don’t understand? I said the monster will become a sacrifice.”

Ruans’s face turned deathly pale as he imagined Lorencia, who had become a sacrifice, lying dead.

“Don’t lie. Lorencia is…”

The thought of her disappearing from this world made his heart ache to the point of madness.

“Don’t tell me you’ve come to love that monster, Your Majesty.”

At Daniel’s words, Ruans clutched his left heart.

Come to think of it, his feelings for Lorencia could only be explained as love.

“Is it wrong to love a monster?”

“It’s fine to love her. But the monster is scheduled to die soon, so it would be best for you to empty your heart.”

“No. Lorencia is…”

Daniel is the type to do what he says he will. I want to save her.

But can I really save her? Without Daniel, I absolutely cannot maintain my current position.

It felt as if frustration was enveloping his entire body.

“If you want to save the monster, make Her Majesty love you. Very deeply. Then the white snake goddess Saraph will respond.”

“A response that will spare her life?”

“Who knows. We primitive humans cannot predict the whims of the goddess. But you never know. If the goddess Saraph takes a liking to the purple-eyed monster who loves Your Majesty, she may spare her life instead of killing her.”

Ruans could no longer trust everything Daniel said.

He kept saying Lorencia was his when he was young, and now he’s taking her away? And not even as a sacrifice to the goddess Ella, but to the white snake goddess Saraph who betrayed Ella?

Then what was the reason for making such large donations to the Temple of Ella?

Is it related to the high priestess and the white snake? Why offer Lorencia as a sacrifice?

Have Pellena and Daniel ever told him the truth? Ruans was suspicious of everything and had reached a point where he couldn’t trust anything.

Left alone after Daniel and Pellena left, Ruans slammed his fist on the sofa armrest with all his might.

Seeing Daniel’s pitch-black tongue, Ruans clearly felt it. Lorencia will surely die.

What should he do to protect the woman he loves?

There is only one way. To gain Daniel’s power and authority for himself.

“I even killed my biological father.”

What’s a maternal grandfather.

Ruans quietly lifted the corners of his mouth.

Ruans couldn’t stand Daniel’s words.

He had been a presence who loved him since childhood, but this time he just felt too unfamiliar.

Through his red eyes, Ruans felt that he could be abandoned at any time.

Now was not the time for this. He needed to inform Lorencia of this fact right away. He should ask her for help.

And he also needed to gather information about the white snake goddess Saraph.

“Things are about to get busy.”

He could just shift all the blame to Daniel and Pellena.

His mind made up, Ruans jumped to his feet. To send a letter to Lorencia.

Lorencia checked the letters that had arrived for her.

One was from Illina, and the other was from Ruans.

Illina’s letter said that she would somehow persuade Ruans and bring the imperial edict canceling the family name. And Ruans’s letter had a sense of urgency.

“My life is in danger?”

Doesn’t he know that the one in danger is not herself, but Ruans himself?

“What do you mean your life is in danger? What on earth did that Ruans send?”

Lorencia handed the letter she was reading to Teishar.

-My maternal grandfather is after you, Lorencia. He said he would offer you as a sacrifice. I’ll secretly visit the Polloid Empire’s Duke of Glosstone estate. I hope you’ll meet with me and hear me out.-

“Loa. No matter how many times I read the handwriting, the word ‘sacrifice’ is what I see.”

Pointing to the word ‘sacrifice’ in Ruans’s letter, Teishar asked Lorencia.

“It seems that Emperor Ruans and Duke Daniel have had a falling out.”

Lorencia lifted the corners of her mouth. Just as she wanted, Ruans had come to distrust the family he believed in.

“Duke Daniel is offering me as a sacrifice…”

“Loa, this is a serious issue. If this letter is true, we need to increase your guard. Of course, I plan to always stay by your side, but I’ll increase it for times when I’m not there.”

“Just looking at the contents of the letter, it is indeed serious. But to whom is Duke Daniel offering me as a sacrifice? The white snake?”

“The white snake that descended from the heavens.”

“The white snake that betrayed the goddess Ella…”

She recalled the words of the fairy queen Titania.

Titania said that the goddess Ella truly loved this world.

Lorencia bit her lower lip hard.

The meaning of the sacrifice mentioned in the letter sent by Ruans is probably that she will be offered to Saraph.

She couldn’t imagine how she would be devoured.

But she was certain that being devoured did not have a good meaning.

So when she first heard the story of the white snake Saraph from Titania. She thought.

Could it be that her mother Musilla was also offered as a sacrifice to Saraph?

“Loa. You’ll hurt yourself if you bite like that.”

“I got angry without realizing it and bit my lip.”

Teishar worriedly looked at Lorencia, who had bitten her lip too hard, and gently rubbed her lip with his thumb.

“The white snake Saraph covets the position of the goddess Ella. So she instigated people to call the children of the goddess Ella witches and make them sacrifices, and then devoured them. I’m so angry thinking that maybe my mother was also devoured by Saraph.”

As Lorencia spoke in a voice mixed with anger and sadness, Teishar gently embraced her.

“The white snake Saraph is trying to steal the position of the goddess Ella and become the chief goddess of this world.”

After hearing the story of the white snake from Titania, she kept searching for related futures. But the future of the white snake Saraph was filled with only darkness.

She didn’t know why, but she couldn’t see what the future was like at all.

“I wanted to know the future of the white snake Saraph and used my power, but I couldn’t see the future. No matter how evil, I don’t think she can be considered a goddess, the sister of the goddess Ella.”

Teishar tightly hugged Lorencia and patted her back.

“For the future to come, we prepare in the present. If the coming future may become dangerous, we just need to think about and act on what we should do now to protect that future.”

“Ter. I think you’re right. Ordinary people don’t know the future and live diligently in the present for the future… I think I relied too much on the power to see the future.”

“I believe the future changes depending on how you live in the present.”

At Teishar’s words, Lorencia lifted the corners of her mouth.

“Ter, aren’t you curious about your own future?”

“My future is set, so I’m not curious.”

As Teishar lowered his head and rubbed his cheek against Lorencia’s soft cheek, Lorencia grabbed his cheeks with both hands and made him look at her.

“You’re the one who just said that the future changes according to the present, Ter.”

“My present will never change.”

“Suddenly saying that makes me curious.”

“I have no future other than being by Loa’s side.”

Teishar’s large hand caressed Lorencia’s cheek.

“I also have no future other than being by your side.”

At his words, Lorencia felt as if she was immersed in warm water, enveloped in a comfortable sense of fulfillment.

Teishar’s lips carefully covered Lorencia’s lips.

His hand gently brushed her hair back and freely stroked her head as he pulled her body to fit against his.

Before long, with their bodies completely pressed together, they fell into a state of ecstasy as if savoring sweet food between each other’s lips, their breaths passing back and forth countless times.

As their lips parted, the two looked at each other and began to smile with the happiest faces in the world.

“By the way, Loa. Are you planning to reply to Emperor Ruans?”

Lorencia, who had been resting her head on Teishar’s chest, lifted her head and looked up at Teishar.

“I’m thinking about it.”

“If you don’t want to send it, you don’t have to.”

When she first saw the future where she returned the words he had said to her, she felt refreshed just by seeing it.

And she repeated them back to him.

Her frustrated heart was slightly relieved, but it was not completely resolved. She thought about why that was.

And the conclusion she reached was that the betrayal of being deceived for a long time could not be resolved with a few words thrown back at him.

Then if she spent a long time tormenting him in the same way, would this feeling be resolved?

No matter how much she thought about it, the wounds she received from him would not heal.

Even if she received a sincere apology, they would never heal.