Inside, Mira was still asleep so I sat beside her while Arachne and Valeria were chatting.

She grunted and squinted her eyes before opening them up completely, she then noticed I was sitting beside her.

"Master! " she quickly checked my body.

"Don't worry Mira, I'm ok now" I try to comfort her.

But my words didn't stop her, she continued checking until finally after checking five times she stopped.

'Oi, oi, oi who told you to molest my master?!' Rea was still shouting in my head.

"Ate Mira, let's go eat lunch" Arachne came and asked Mira to ea together.

"Arachne?! Where have you been?! And your body! " Mira was just as shocked as I was earlier.

"At least ate Mira noticed at one glance" Arachne shot me a glance.

"Hehe..." I laughed dryly as I scratched my head.

As we were walking, Mira and Arachne were chatting while Valeria supported me. This was something she insisted to do.

"Hey, Valeria, back there I could've sworn I saw you die..." I asked reluctantly as I didn't want to stick my nose where it didn't belong.

"To be honest....I've got three skills, they are [eye of truth] which allows me to see into the heart of any living being, then there's [eye of lies] it allows me to see the level of my enemies and finally [A heart that stopped beating], it is the skill that the undead king wants. Once I die I will revive 5 seconds afterward but it has a 5 days cooldown and during those 5 days I will become fully human..."

I was too shocked to reply, no wonder the undead king wanted her, she has 2 lives.

"Is that so..." I didn't know if it was a blessing or a curse.

"There you go again, letting me hear your thoughts" she laughed

"Was it bad?"

"No, it wasn't that bad...but.."

"But? " that but just gave me a bad feeling.

"There seems to be another voice yelling 'Master is mine!! Don't touch him!! ' something like that" she touched her chin and gave me an inquisitive look.

"Lyan, I told you my secret, now it's your turn~" Valeria said as she smiled like an angel.

"What are you guys talking about? " Arachne walked over with Mira.

"Lyan here is hiding something~" Valeria smiled towards the two women.

That was the universal sign that women use wherein they team up and judge a single person! I'm dead...

"Master, what is this secret~" Arachne smiled as she held onto my chest and looked up at me.

Mira also took out a pen and a little book with the title 'Master's secret'. Oi Mira since when have you started listing my secrets?!

"Ahaha...truth is...." I wanted to lie but the women in front of me were all smiling blissfully while releasing terrifying auras so I can only look down and confess.

"Rea, she formed a consciousness and is now residing in my head..."

"""What?!""" All three of them screamed in unison.

Mira broke her pen while Valeria was getting ready to see me get nagged at by Mira and Arachne? She was oddly quiet.

"Master...am I not enough?" Arachne pouted.

"What?!" Mira was once again shocked.

"Master, finally answered my confession and said he loved me" Arachne said as she blushed and held her both her cheeks while telling Mira the entire story.

"Master Lyan, you womanizer!" Mira screamed as she rushed ahead.

"Hoho, it's good to be young" I heard a voice somewhere so I followed it's location with my head and saw dad with the three generals hiding behind the tent, they were laughing their asses off.

I only shook my head and headed for the canteen, I was too hungry to even give a shit.

Soon afternoon came and we all packed our bags and went home, apparently, Mira charged ahead and killed off hundreds of undead with the help of Valeria and caused the advance of the undead to come to a halt.

They said she did it for me which made me embarrassed. I've got to tell Mira not to do reckless stuff next time.

While we were heading home Mira has been acting weird and would be deep in thought, usually, she was attentive.

It seems I gotta talk to her later.

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We all packed our things and started heading back to Timberwolf castle but along the way I keep remembering Arachne's blissful look as she told me her story.

'Would I be as happy as her if I...' I quickly stopped my thoughts.

"Hey, Mira let's walk outside a bit" Master Lyan came closer while riding his horse.

"Yes" he strayed from the group and I followed.

We stopped at a nearby pond, he went down his horse and sat at a nearby tree, I followed suit and sat behind him.

"Mira, I heard you rushed off in the middle of an undead horde.

"Yes"

"Please don't do anything reckless..."

"It won't happen again"

Master seemed like he didn't really believe my reply but I kept silent.

"Mira, what's really going on? " he said.

"Nothing's wrong"

"I highly doubt that" he replied as he looked straight into my eyes.

I was only quiet, you usually don't see master Lyan so serious.

"Usually you would be attentive but you kept spacing out"

"I was just thinking"

"Of what?" He was starting to get mad

"Things..." I replied meekly, this is bad if it keeps up he's bound to know.

"Please Mira answer it truthfully" he said with a voice full of concern.

"I...the things about Arachne's confession.." I looked down and saw my two fists clench

"Is it just about that?" He looked at me and was trying to hold in his laughter.

"Master! " I was embarrassed but sad at the same time, he called my problem 'just' like it was nothing.

"If you're that jealous why not just admit that you love me and be with me?" Lyan said as he leaned in the tree and looked up.

"I can't..." I can't be together with him, he's like the light, he gave me a reason to live.

"Mira...remember when you discovered about your bloodline's powers?" Lyan said

I can't help but also remember when I was a kid and mom told me that I can use our lost skills. It was on that day that my torturous training began.

Every day I would train until I collapse and when I wake up I will train again... I was sick of it so I decided to run away, I got lost in the woods but I didn't care, as long as I could get away from that hellhole.

As I roamed the dark forest, I came across a monster that I can't defeat so I ran but it chased after me, I then tripped on a tree rot and when I looked behind it was already there. It had large fangs...I was scared to death but out of nowhere its feet sank into a mud pit, I looked to the side and saw master Lyan, trying hard to catch his breath.

"Mira! Get away!" He roared as lightning and water burst out of his palm and shocked the monster, however, the monster managed to endure and started charging at him.

"Mira, go back home and let me deal with this monster" he ordered before jumping into the bushes. The monster gave chase.

I was sat there frozen for a few minutes before I was able to process what has happened.

'He saved me!' I thought as I continued chasing after them.

'He won't be able to take it alone'

When I finally arrived I saw master Lyan, his body had numerous wounds but there he was stabbing his sword to the monster's eyes.

The monster died and master Lyan laid on the ground. I hurriedly rip off some parts of my clothes to use a bandage.

"Did you see that?" He asked as I wrapped his body with the torn cloth

"Saw what?" I only saw the part where he finished off the monster.

"The part where I collapsed" he said as he hid his face.

"Damn it....can't believe I let you see my weak side" he said in a quiet voice

"You're concerned about that?" Honestly.

"Yea, if I were to make you fall in love with me, don't I have to look cool in front of you?" He said as he laughed.

"Love? Fall? are you trying to kill me?" I was ignorant back then.

"Haha!" He laughed so hard that his wounds opened again.

"What's so funny?! " being laughed at was not a good feeling.

"Hey, why'd you run away" he said as he wiped his tears with one hand.

"I hated training" I quickly replied.

"Is that it? I don't believe you"

"I hated everything, all I do is train...it's painful and whenever I go out I always see the other girls wearing nice clothes while mine was all dirty on torn" I answered truthfully this time.

"Hmmmm...let's go!" Lyan said as he pulled me out of the forest and into the town ignoring the fact that his clothes were bloodied and was torn here and there. We stopped in front of a clothing shop and entered.

"Welcome dear customers!" Worker greeted us.

"Young master Lyan!" A woman who looked like the owner came and spoke with us. master Lyan was well known in the town and castle for being the son of the Lord and as a cheeky kid that went around and caused havoc, although most of it were harmless pranks that always put a smile on everyone.

"Hi there, may I please ask for your best clothes for this fine young lady" Lyan said as he browsed some clothes for men.

"Miss come this way please" a worker respectfully guided me to the changing room and brought me clothes to change into.

"Young master Lyan, these are newly made and are of the highest quality!" O can hear the two of them talking to each other outside the changing rooms.

I tried on all the clothes and showed it to him. He would always compliment me as he applaused whenever I tried on different clothes.

"I'll take them all! He said as he paid for everything and carried all the clothes back to the castle as he held my hand.

When we arrived back, his father was looking at him with an inquisitive look

"Where have you been?" Lord Ryan asked while he crossed his arm.

"Training!" Lyan already predicted this and replied quickly.

"The training ground is back there" Lord Ryan said as he pointed behind him.

"I got the magic stone to prove it!" Lyan said as he threw a magic stone to his dad.

"Did you really go out there and killed a monster?" Lord Ryan's stoic acting fell apart and was replaced with worry.

"Yea, look at these wounds" Lyan said as he pulled up his shirt and showing the bandages wrapped around his body.

"Hey dad, wonder what will happen if I tell Mom that I got these wounds from you?" Lyan threatened his own father.

"You cheeky little...*sigh*... what do you want?" The threat worked and Lord Ryan could only surrender to his son.

"Dad, convince aunt Maria to ease up on Mira's training" Lyan said seriously.

"This...I'm sorry but I can't" Lord Ryan scratched his head.

"Then..let me train with her!" Lyan didn't give up.

"I'll try to convince her" Lord Ryan said as he left, he wanted to leave as early as possible because his son might make another unreasonable request.

After getting nagged at and punished by my mother, I fell asleep.

The next day, I saw master Lyan talking with mom, mom had a troubled face but Lyan didn't stop and kept talking. In the end, he walked towards me and sat beside me.

"Mira, young master Lyan will be training with you but only for a year"

And so in that one year that we trained together, what seemed to be hell soon became something I looked forward to. I fell in love with him.

I was called back to reality by his laughs as he told me stories of when we trained together for a year, I too couldn't help but laugh.

"Then and now, nothing really has changed to be honest, I still trust you with all my heart but now I want you to trust me, I can also help you, you know." Lyan said as he threw a pebble into a pond. The ripples the pebble made was the same as the ripples in my heart.

"Master...no, Lyan, please hear me out" I seriously looked at him before saying.

"I love you, I'm fine being a concubine as long as I stay by your side" This was something I learned when I found him bloodied and wounded, no matter the place and time, I always wish to be with him, to be there to face the challenges together.

"I'll have to say no..." He said.