Gerard shook his head, his voice thick with regret. "If I had killed him that day, perhaps everything would have turned out differently. You were merely victims of the Four Pillars Cult. Had you never met him, you wouldn't have been bewitched, and your quiet, prison-like lives would never have been torn apart. Ashe Heath is truly a source of calamity."0

Ronna's voice cut through him, calm yet firm. "I don't shirk responsibility, nor do I believe I was bewitched. On the contrary, I am grateful to him. Without this chain of events, my ritual would never have been completed, and I would never have gained emotion.0

"However, we do agree on one thing. He is undeniably charismatic. He creates ever-shifting stages of fate and lets people break free from the monotony...0