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.

to recover, and he had taught her

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

him.

her a new life when she

exactly are you trying

smile remained on his

She couldn't reject him.

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

along with him

glow of the streetlights, Leia looked down

blush tinted her cheeks, and

holding

was the first time Avery had held her hand and

brightly lit, and

make sure that Leia wouldn't run away, Avery let

a seat. "Do you still drink strawberry

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

every day.

"You remembered."

"Yes."

took a carton of strawberry yogurt from the fridge, shaking it. "I don't have

yogurt do?"

accepted it with both hands, and she felt

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

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