Master - 3

Love-hate, a complex emotion that simultaneously involved both love and hatred. To be precise, the hatred was greater than the love. Yet, given that I had countless opportunities to kill her but couldn't, perhaps I still harbored some affection for Elysia.

*But that's all it was.*

I couldn't kill her, but it wasn't enough to hold her in love. Nor was the love great enough to overshadow past mistakes and anger.

So, while I didn't want to face her, I didn't wish for her to die a miserable death either. In short, I was in a state of complex and subtle emotions that even I found hard to explain.

Therefore, the emotion I felt when Elysia took the Paladin's attack in my stead was...

...complexity.

*...*

*Why?*

*She clearly detested me so much until recently, so why did she take that attack for me just now?*

Unless I could peer into her mind, I couldn't know the truth. But one thing I knew was that it was more shocking and unsettling than I expected...