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They say even monkeys fall from trees sometimes.
Yuria quietly watched Elder Goulda, who was sitting across from her, downing barley beer like water.
“Ahhh. That’s the stuff.”
He firmly believed that any of life’s problems could be handled as long as there was alcohol.
He shook his head. “Tsk, tsk. I knew you’d screw up eventually.”
“I don’t have an excuse.”
“What’s surprising is… the head of the Moon Forest, the icon of betrayal, taking all the blame on her own.” Goulda clicked his tongue and gave a sly laugh, but Yuria only shook her head at the annoying dwarf.
“It wasn’t for anything that noble,” she said with a rare gloomy expression. “At first, I just wanted to pay off my debt.”
At the same time, her eyes began to redden. “But when I saw Gracious Savior’s face…”
“Stop. I know,” he said, pretending not to know, even though he knew everything.
Tears began to spill from her eyes. “When I saw his face, my mind went blank. This wasn’t what I meant to do. It was like something I’d buried suddenly came rushing back. Hic.”
Elder Goulda and Yuria had been with Davey since the very beginning. Their attachments to him ran deeper than most.
Goulda sat in silence, watching her struggle to hold back her sobs, then sighed. “Just think of it as a bitter lesson.”
On the surface, Perserque had stepped in to make sure no one else could scold Yuria anymore. But there was no way that kind of decision was something that could be made so easily.
Even if they were subordinates, if they dug into the reverse scale of the person they loved, it was normal to lose their mind on the spot.
Davey had ignored it, pretending not to notice. It was not only because he cared deeply for Yuria, but also because, deep down, he believed the fault lay with him. Perserque, knowing how much pain Davey would go through, had taken care of the whole incident with only the lightest punishment for his sake.
So, any official justification to discipline Yuria had disappeared. Alas, the guilt and shame she carried didn’t vanish...
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