"If you don't wake up soon, I'm going to run away immediately."
Still no response.
Seeing this, Lynn sighed and sat back upright.
"Your beautiful and charming sister is very interested in me now."
"Dear Imperial Princess, you wouldn't want your little puppy to become someone else's, right?"
Even though Lynn had completely cut off his connection with the outside world in the past few days, he could easily guess that the Great Imperial Princess Hillena must be desperately trying to contact him.
Lynn tried every method he could think of to wake Ivyst, but none succeeded in the end.
What tightened his heart even more was the rate at which the black demon pattern was spreading over Ivyst's originally fair skin. Initially, there were only a few faint lines on her wrist, but within days, they climbed up her arm and entwined around her neck, leaving some ghastly marks on her pale cheeks.
The demon pattern emitted a faint dark light, as if greedily devouring her remaining vitality.
