My Insolent Shadow (22 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 67

The red gaze fixed on me shimmered with a lingering weight.

That his eyes curved as sweetly as a crescent moon lasted only a fleeting moment.

“Pull the string for me.”

“……”

“Is that all?”

Entranced by the honeyed voice, as if ready to give her everything, Yuriciel stared at him.

His seemingly composed demeanor swelled Yuriciel’s heart with anticipation.

“Twelve pills… just twelve pills will do.”

Her trembling voice brimmed with desperate yearning.

With twelve pills, she could survive a full year. By then, Mother would be fully cured.

She could finally keep the promise they’d made to travel together.

It’s said humans instinctively seek hope rather than despair.

Her desperation arrogantly assumed he would give her the medicine and even conjured reasons for it.

To him, she was surely nothing more than an annoying remnant of the past.

Over the past three years, while she’d sent dozens of letters, he’d replied only once.

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