Yarra's Adventure Notes-Chapter 1309 - 95 Flare

"So this time, I won’t make the same mistake again," Flare raised her left hand, pointing at Pannis with her ring finger that showed no signs of abnormality. "Now, the Life Sharing Ceremony has bound us together. Even if you run to the ends of the deep sea, beyond the Elemental Screen, you won’t be able to get rid of me like before. This time, I refuse to lose to her again. I want to see what excuses you can find now."

"Wait, wait, just calm down," Pannis suddenly froze as he listened to Flare’s declaration of war, and asked in confusion, "Something’s not quite right. If I remember correctly, after the Life Sharing Ceremony takes effect, your vitality should have been transferred to my body, and we both should feel it, right? Why do I only feel a bit of strange energy inside me now, but no other sensations?"

"Stupid Kyle, how dull can you be? You’re only thinking of this now?" Flare, interrupted in her declaration, sat down sullenly again, took a big gulp of the cactus juice that Pannis had collected, elegantly wiped the green liquid from the corner of her lips, and replied seriously, "If there are no other sensations, it’s naturally because the connection has been established but the Life Sharing hasn’t taken effect yet. Otherwise, how could you possibly not feel anything? I certainly wouldn’t be in my current state; I would be in a prolonged period of weakness."

"Hasn’t taken effect?" Pannis pondered for a few seconds and said thoughtfully, "Could it be due to my special state?"

"Of course that’s the reason. The life-sharing ability blessed upon us by the Goddess can only affect mortal lives. Otherwise, if someone were to conduct the ceremony with a deity, wouldn’t they be able to live forever?" Flare sighed regretfully and said, "However, since your soul is entangled with Danacus’s divinity, even though we’ve established a connection, we can’t complete the final step of Life Sharing until the divinity in your soul disappears. Only then will the ceremony be truly complete."

"You..." Pannis’s words stuck in his throat. Flare’s quick affirmation implied she had anticipated that the ceremony wouldn’t be completely successful. Yet, despite this, she was still willing to waste her only chance just to create a bond between them. So her purpose couldn’t possibly be, as she previously stated, just to keep her heart by her side. As for her real purpose, Pannis could only sigh deeply and said with a bitter smile, "I really don’t know what to say now."

"You guessed right; that is indeed my purpose," Flare said without concealing her thoughts and with a hint of unease, "You can never fool me when you lie. Although you seem so certain when you tell us that even if your Death Curse disappears, at most you would lose your undead trait and your physical state wouldn’t change due to the past hundred-plus years, that answer itself is just a guess, isn’t it? You can’t even be sure about its validity and are just choosing a slightly better possibility to comfort everyone. In reality though? You are very likely to instantly age over a hundred years and then turn into white bones the moment you lose the divine entanglement."

"Well, that’s only a possibility," Pannis scratched his head and said with a wry smile, "And it’s a very slim one, almost negligible."

"Nonsense, you think I’m as easy to deceive as Dillie and those two little birds? When have you ever lied to me successfully?" Flare huffed, brought the queenly pressure closer to Pannis, and looked down into his eyes fiercely, saying, "I don’t want to see you struggling through your plans, deciding to return to this world alive, only to find you’ve come back as nothing but bones. So I might as well use this ceremony as an insurance policy. The moment the divinity in your soul disappears, the Life Sharing Ceremony will immediately take effect, and then even if the past hundred-plus years of time backlash against you, you’ll still live just fine. I won’t leave you any excuses to sacrifice your life for her."

"Why would you do this..." Pannis looked blankly at Flare, who was just a few centimeters away, and could even feel the breath of the queen on his skin. After a long pause, he sighed deeply and said in a low voice, "I’m not worth you going this far."

"Who do you think I am?" At this moment, Flare showed no sign of her usually gentle nature, her queenly demeanor crystal clear, said with arrogance, "I am the king of eight hundred thousand elves, the earthly proxy for Lord Yuktiraxil. Where my scepter points, that’s where the arrows of the One Hundred Thousand Forest Guards are aimed. When I say something is worthwhile, who dares to disagree?"

"Well, I have no objections to that," Pannis coughed dryly and said, "But if I remember correctly, deciding to mobilize the Forest Guards isn’t entirely up to you, right?"

"Pff, you’re so annoying. I hardly ever express myself like this," the queen’s arrogance faded instantly as her natural gentleness could no longer be contained and returned within her. Struggling to contain her laughter, Flare playfully pounded Pannis a few times and said softly, biting her lip, "Whatever I say is worthwhile, is worthwhile."

"Alright alright, you’re the queen, you have the final say," Pannis instinctively reached out, as he used to do, and tousled Flare’s green hair, looking contrite as he said, "However, forgive me, even with all this, I still can’t give you a definitive answer. Perhaps, only when I truly face that moment, will I be able to make my own decision."

"I knew that a long time ago. If these things could make you easily change your mind and throw aside your feelings for her, then you wouldn’t be the Kyle I deeply love," Flare seemed not at all disheartened by seemingly not achieving her purpose, instead she smiled cheerfully, "From the beginning, I said that if you showed hesitation, I would be very satisfied. Everything I have done hasn’t been to make you change your mind, but just to lay out my heart in front of you. As for the decision you ultimately make, that’s your business; I have neither the right nor the ability to interfere. Heh, now that everything that needed to be done is done, I feel quite relaxed, ready to enjoy the culinary skills of the Deep Sand People. I believe that the food you make won’t disappoint me, well, except for elven food."

Pannis gave the relaxed queen a bewildered look, feeling uneasy about her evasiveness and concessions on key issues. free𝑤ebnovel.com