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.

her to undergo surgery to recover, and he

it broke away from Peace's Embrace, but she had never

him.

life when she

exactly are you trying to

was gasping for breath, but the smile remained on his face. "Can

She couldn't reject him.

held onto the flowerbed for support as he got up, but he never let go

along with him as he walked toward

glow of the streetlights, Leia looked

tinted her

holding

held her hand and also the first time she

was simple and brightly lit, and it

door to make sure that Leia wouldn't run away,

he asked Leia to take a seat. "Do you still drink

turned redder. When he took her in back then, she had insisted

every day.

"You remembered."

"Yes."

the fridge, shaking

yogurt do?"

with both hands, and she felt her heart turning warm. "Thank

I got used to the strawberry flavor as well.

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