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.

had allowed her to undergo surgery to recover, and he had taught

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

him.

a new life when she was at her

you trying to

smile remained on his face.

She couldn't reject him.

the flowerbed for support as he got up, but

with him as he walked toward his

the streetlights, Leia looked

an instant, a blush tinted her

holding

Avery had held her hand and also the first time she entered his

room was simple and brightly lit, and

make sure that Leia wouldn't run away,

take a seat. "Do you still drink

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

every day.

"You remembered."

"Yes."

yogurt from the fridge, shaking

yogurt do?"

both hands, and she felt her

used to the strawberry flavor as well.

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