If it was anyone else who had heard that phrase, they would have been shocked beyond words. She was not alive? Could she be a dead person, then?

But when Leanna heard that, she was overjoyed instead of shocked. “Mr. Larson, y-you could really tell Gemma’s condition. Looks like you’re the only one who could save her, just as the old miracle doctor had told me!”

“What do you mean?” Matthew asked, surprised.

Suppressing her excitement, she asked him in a low voice, “What do you think of Gemma’s condition now, Mr. Larson?”

Matthew thought about it for a while before asking her instead, “Was Orleans the last hiding place of your friend?”

Again, he surprised her. “How did you know that?”

Matthew let out a small sigh and explained a shocking tale to her, “Gemma no longer has a heart and the only way to keep such a person alive in this world exists only in Orleans.

of a heart, while another child worm is placed into the heart of another person. The child and mother worms are connected,

the beating mother worm residing in

as good as a regular heart, it could still keep a person alive! However, this method is akin to killing one’s life to save another, because the person with the child worm has to take the

 

Leanna stared wide-eyed at

Was I

voice, “Mr. Larson, e-everything you said is true. That’s

pressed on with

was hiding some details from you just now. My best friend didn’t pass away back then, but the young master tortured her

front of her eyes, that young master stabbed into Gemma’s heart and then cut off my best friend’s wrists, leaving her there to watch as Gemma’s heartbeat slowly died down. Fortunately, an old miracle doctor happened to meet them by chance

best friend was—able to bear all sorts of suffering for the sake of

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