Victor remained silent for a while.
The wind continued blowing through the open window, carrying a few cherry blossom petals past the small residence, but he was no longer looking at the tree. His eyes were lowered, fixed on his own hands as Seo Baek Hyang's words continued echoing in his head. He had felt the urge to question her because, to him, imagining someone capable of loving Serafall that way and still choosing to remain distant seemed almost contradictory. But the more he thought about what she had explained, the less fair it seemed to insist.
She had been given a second chance.
And she had used that chance to save her own daughter.
Victor was probably one of the last people in the world who had any right to condemn her for that.
