I left Heath Relia's room and walked in the direction of my room.

I passed by the place where my master and I lived before. Darkness enveloped the night sky, dotted with few sparse stars.

"Ilotia."

I knew I'd always be called out when I passed by.

Turning my head, I looked at Nora.

"What’s up?"

My impression of Nora had become worse since the last time I had an argument with her.

Nora was in good spirit. With her head down, she seemed to have something difficult to say to me.

"Last time... I'm sorry. I was too impulsive."

Did she come to apologize to me?

But it's a bit ridiculous to come to make up with me after making sure that Vinales won't die.

But Nora is pretty pathetic too. Probably discovered her own feelings to Vinales, Nora was so anxious about the life and death of Vinales. After all, Nora just found that she loved Vinales, but her loved was about to die. So it is normal that Nora had the bad feelings at that time.

So Nora's anger at that time is also justifiable.

"It's okay."

Nora paused for a moment. She raised her head but she was still looking down at me and said.

"Vinales is saved. I can also calm down well. It is true that you can not be blamed for Vinales. You are just exercising your duty to protect the Demon King. I think it's all my fault. If I wasn't so stupid, Vinales wouldn't have fallen to the current state."

In fact, I should take the blame a little.

After all, I guessed Vinales' feelings to Nora, but I didn't dare to be sure due to my lack of understanding of Vinales. So I didn’t tell Nora.

But I can't admit that all blame put on Nora does good to our reconciliation. So I can play the generous side.

"It can't be all your fault, after all, Vinales hides her feelings very deep."

During this period, Nora learned to be melancholy. Although she showed more joyful because of that Vinales can be saved, she showed a little sadness at the same time. Compared to the previous Nora who was carefree, Nora is far worse now.

"You’re right. But I will wait for Vinales. This time I will try to comfort Vinales. I hope Vinales can let go of the past, and let go of hatred. If possible, I hope to persuade her to continue to work for the Demon King, of course, provided that the Demon King will accept it..."

Said that, Nora giggled. She seems to have begun to imagine the day when Vinales was out of prison.

I do not know yet about how many years Vinales is going to be in the prison for.

"How many years will Vinales be in prison?"

When I finished asking, Nora's smile instantly disappeared.

"Forty years. But it will reduce the sentence depending on performance during the period in prison."

Forty years ...

At that time, you two will become old women. Will Nora really love Vinales for her life?

"Can you really afford to wait for forty years?"

"Why can't I wait? Forty years will pass in the blink of an eye, besides I can go to the prison to see her anytime if I miss her."

That's good.

But I still have one more doubt in my mind.

"Don't you hate the Demon King?"

If Nora developed a hatred for the master because of this, wouldn't Nora pose great threat to the master?

"Why do I hate?" Unexpectedly Nora shook her head, "I'm not like Vinales who is willing to dedicate herself to the world and worries about the people. I just want to live well. I can try my best to help people. But if I can’t help them, it doesn’t matter. As for Vinales, I can't blame the Demon King. After all, it's her fault. I will not revenge on the Demon King, instead, I really want to thank her."

Nora showed her smile again.

"I don't think it was Heath Relia who persuaded the Demon King to spare Vinales, because Vinales and I didn't know Heath Relia well either, and she had no reason to help me and Vinales. So I can't possibly hate the Demon King. But instead I am now a little confused about this woman. If it were me who was assassinated, I would have been furious, while the Demon King is always very calm."

So is Nora not a threat to the master?

If that's the case then I'm relieved, and the good feeling towards Nora is instantly adjusted back upwards.

"Ilotia, I know what you are worried about. I'm not going to do something stupid like that."

I nodded my head and smiled with satisfaction at Nora's open-mindedness.

"That's good. Nora, you're a real understanding person. If there's nothing to do, I'm going back to rest."

"Hey...wait." Nora giggled a little when she was complimented by me. And she immediately turned back to be serious and stopped me.

"Is there anything else?"

"Are you really enjoying this?"

Nora asked cautiously.

"What?"

"Staying by the Demon King's side and being willingly bound by her. Do you really like this from the bottom of your heart or are you forced to?"

I paused for thought for a while.

"What's the difference? I like this very much, and I enjoy staying by my master's side."

"Why are you... so dependent on her?"

"Because I want the master's tenderness."

"Anyone can give you tenderness, right?"

"That's different."

I know that master's gentleness is rare, so I cherish it up, and I treat master's gentleness as a precious treasure and try to ask for it.

"So that's how it is."

Nora was seemingly lost, as if the distance between us had just been blocked again.

"If there's nothing to do, I'm going back to rest."