Little Tyrant Doesn’t Want to Meet with a Bad End - Chapter 623.2
Chapter 623.2: Alicia’s Letter (2)
Alicia’s letter had shaken Roel up. It made him cognizant of his mistakes.
He had always thought that he would never part ways with Alicia, and since that had remained the case for so long, he had ended up taking her for granted.
To him, she was always an innocent and mischievous girl who lived her days without worries. Yet, the letter gave him a peek into the frustrations that had been simmering in her mind.
Love was not all sweet; it was often bitter as well, especially for sensitive young girls.
The rejections she had faced again and again had left a shadow in Alicia’s heart, and that was the greatest weakness pulling her down when dealing with the influx of memories brought about by her awakening.
And Roel, to some extent, was the culprit behind it.
He could sense Alicia’s confusion and resignation through the letter, and her will hinted at the despair she felt at her situation. But, at the very end, she still chose to clutch onto hope.
Please save me.
Those were the words Alicia had written in the letter’s postscript, and they reflected her truest wish. This was a redemption to Roel. It showed that she trusted him to bring her back even at the very end. It brought him courage, and he would accomplish it regardless of the price.
Roel stood by the window in his dark study room, staring at the vast plain beneath. Beside him, the spirit guide remained fast asleep in the cage he had received from Antonio.
The spirit guide was his only means to track Alicia, but it had a whimsical nature that would only look for its previous master when it remembered her.
However, there was another solution Roel could employ.
The spirit guide’s failure to remember Alicia might have been due to insufficient stimuli being provided to it. It should be possible to jolt its memory if he could stimulate it with mana similar to Alicia’s, but he would have to pay a corresponding price to achieve that.
Roel’s golden eyes slowly narrowed.
He had previously planned to bide his time, but that was
