Chapter 128: The Principle of Consent

Seeing Sanzenin Nagi fall silent, Amamiya Ren said nothing either and instead walked off to one side.

"Nagi, this is something you need to think through yourself."

Maria did not press her, but followed in the direction Amamiya Ren had gone.

"Mr. Amamiya, may I have a word with you?"

"Sure."

The two of them did not step away from Sanzenin Nagi, but simply stood off to the side.

"Regarding Young Lady Shiko, may I ask how much you know about her?"

"Mm… not much, really."

Maria gave a small nod.

"I know that for her daughter's sake, she made a wish within the Wang Court, borrowing the power of the Wang Zu."

"That whenever she needed help, she could call the name of the person bound to her most deeply, and whether in the past or the future, he would come to her side like a swift wind."

"She made that wish at the cost of everything she had left."

"But Sanzenin Shiko was still a person favored by the gods."

"As far as I know, only her body died; her soul never entered the cycle of reincarnation."

"In my memory, she seemed to appear again in the story of Sanzenin Nagi's future."

"Though in a different form."

Listening to this steady stream of talk, Maria went rigid from head to toe.

This didn't sound like "not much" at all.

Wasn't this knowing quite a lot?

And then there was the wish Eldest Young Lady Shiko had made for Nagi.

For Nagi's sake, she had given up everything she had left.

That wish had truly cost a tremendous price.

But what startled her most was Eldest Young Lady Shiko's current state.

That person had clearly passed away long ago, yet she still managed to appear in the story of Nagi's future.

"Then does that mean Eldest Young Lady Shiko never truly died?"

"You could say that."

"It likely stems from Sanzenin Shiko's own fate."

Sanzenin Shiko was an exceptionally unusual person.

Her encounters were extraordinary; in a sense, her luck and her destiny were strongly intertwined.

All the good fortune she had gathered in the past converged at this single moment, and only then was she able to receive destiny's favor.