[You have been afflicted with the status ‘Confusion’.]

[The ‘Cold Blooded’ trait has been activated for an unspecified reason.]

[The ‘Cold Blooded’ trait has been activated for an unspecified reason.]

Yeon-woo’s heart was pounding like crazy, and his breathing had grown shallow and rapid. He blanked out, unable to register anything.

The diary had said nothing about his brother having a child. The only person that his brother had loved in the tower was Vieira Dune, and after she betrayed him, he never gave his heart to anyone else. However, there had been a person who’d tried to heal his brother’s heart. ‘Ananta.’

Ananta had felt an unrequited love his brother for a long time. As the only Dragon Human in the Tower, she had always been lonely, and she’d been extremely happy to see someone of the same species. 

His brother had also been close to her, according to Kalatus’ wishes. However, his feelings for her were strictly platonic, and when Ananta realized that she couldn’t get his brother’s heart, she left. The last time she appeared was when his brother had been staying alone in the clan house, and they’d only talked about how they’d been faring. 

However, it did seem as though Ananta had wanted to tell his brother something. But after all the betrayals he’d endured, his brother had been cold to Ananta, and she left without saying anything other than: “I’ll do anything I can to protect her.”

Had she been talking about Sesha then? ‘Now that I think about it, Ananta seemed to be pretty badly injured, and she looked like she was being chased by something. Who could it have been?’

Brahm’s vestige continued to produce images in Yeon-woo’s head: Ananta leaving a newborn baby in Brahm’s arms; Brahm’s question about the child’s mother; Ananta’s shout that the child was born from her heart. When Yeon-woo reached Brahm’s thoughts, he finally understood all of...