When Leia spotted Avery, she subconsciously tried to escape, but Avery had already noticed her.

"Begonia."

The word drifted toward Leia in the night breeze.

The woman's voice on the other end of the line sounded a little panicky. "Did someone approach you?

Who are you with right now?"

"I'll contact you later." Leia hung up and quickly ran away. She was given mechanical legs, so she ran

faster than a normal human.

Avery wasn't feeling well, so he only ran after Leia for a little while before slumping onto the floor,

panting.

Unexpectedly, Leia turned back and ran back to him. She looked at him anxiously. "Are you okay?"

She had noticed him leaning against the flowerbed, so she thought that something happened to him.

Avery gripped her wrist. "Got you, Begonia."

Begonia was Leia's alias in Peace's Embrace.

Avery's voice was as gentle as always, and Leia had mixed feelings about that.

No one knew this, but Avery was the only salvation she had in her life.

Back then, when she ran away from the poor and desolate village, she encountered Avery.

He was the one who brought her back to Peace's Embrace for proper education.

undergo surgery to

followed Toxic Hive as it broke away from Peace's Embrace, but she

him.

had given her a new life when

exactly are you trying

gasping for breath, but the smile remained on

She couldn't reject him.

flowerbed for support as he got

pulled Leia along with him as

the streetlights, Leia looked down

instant, a blush tinted

holding Avery's

held her hand and also the first time she entered his

was simple and brightly lit,

wouldn't run away, Avery let go of

he asked Leia to take a seat. "Do

he took her in back then, she had insisted on drinking strawberry

every day.

"You remembered."

"Yes."

the fridge, shaking it. "I don't have milk with me.

yogurt do?"

with both hands, and she felt her heart turning

past, I got used to the strawberry flavor as well.

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