Chapter 260 - Flashback (2/2)

Hopefully, it would persuade them to stop supporting her.

At that moment, the Kurkans were probably carrying the Tomaris away from Cerdina’s rooms. They had said they knew all of the secret passages in the palace.

“How do you know about secret passages I don’t even know about?” She had asked Ishakan. He had smiled slightly.

“Because you told me.”

What kind of person had she been, to know all the secret passages in the palace? Leah flew through the garden, running as fast as she could go, wondering about herself and too impatient to pretend otherwise.

And impatient to see Ishakan.

They had agreed to meet after her encounter with Cerdina, to tell each other what had happened, but she was more interested in seeing Ishakan than anything else. Just exchanging a few words with him would help her endure another day in the palace.

“……!”

Leah lurched to a stop as her vision suddenly blurred and sent her suddenly sprawling onto the grass. She gasped, trying to catch her breath, and squeezed her eyes shut against a sudden headache. The fragment of memory was like a splinter in her mind.

She was running in her memory, too. Running desperately through darkened corridors, but in her memory, she was not alone. Behind her was a thin, battered boy, laboriously trying to keep up with her until he suddenly stumbled and fell with a thump.

She turned back instantly to help him, but he got up, refusing her hand.

I can keep going, he said, his cold golden eyes glowing in the darkness as he looked at her. I am not a burden. Run.

She was not strong enough to carry him while she ran, anyway. There was no choice but to go, leading the way, with the boy behind her enduring his pain in silence.

That was where the memory ended.

“…Ah.”

Unconsciously, she sighed with regret. That memory was completely different from the others. She had seemed much younger. As she waited for the excruciating headache to fade, Leah suddenly wondered.

Did I ever meet Ishakan when I was young?

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