Davey looked at Daphne with his arms crossed. “Everyone has a plan. Until it all goes wrong.” “Damn it. Damn it!”0

Daphne continued to berate herself, utterly crushed by the fact that Persephone had vanished.0

“Hey, Daphne.”0

“Davey, just shut up!” she snapped coldly with a glare.0

“Are you saying this is my fault? There was no way to recover her sanity anyway.”0

While the full truth might have been a little different, Davey only shared what he had seen. 0

“She can’t be brought back. She needed to be purified, but you know that even if she did get purified, she still would’ve vanished in the end,” Davey gently explained in an attempt to console her.0

Daphne wiped her tears with the back of her hand and then glared at him again. “I know. I know. That’s why I can’t blame you.”0

“Then—”0

“Still, I’m sorry, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to forget this.” She avoided his gaze. Even though she knew she was wrong, she couldn’t bring herself to say anything more as consolation.0

“That’s a karmic debt I’ll have to carry. So tell me—what exactly were you trying to do?”0

She stayed silent, declining to respond.0

“Hey, Davey. We should just leave her alone for now,” Illyna suggested.0

“No. I need to check to make sure before I decide what to do.”0

“Still, it’s just—”0

“No,” Daphne interjected, cutting Illyna off. She then took a deep breath. “When I found her, all I could think was that...0