*Claire* It was frightening to think I had found comfort from the dark. The moment my eyes opened, a face of a beautiful woman welcomed me. She had introduced herself as Alix. "I told you not to be afraid. I am your friend," she told me, her tone softer as it had been the first time she talked to me. "Sorry..." I felt ashamed by my hesitant and stubborn attitude, especially remembering those times when I strongly refused their warnings about Ajax. They were right and I was wrong. What both Ursual and Alix told me and warned me about―they were all the truths I had ignored, time and time again. And for what reason? Love. I became too blind to see what was real and had ignored all the truths because of love. But no matter how I desperately wished to have an opposite situation, it would

