Persephone glanced at Seamus, who was still wrapped in bandages.

"Go back to rest. You are still injured and can't stand for too long," she softly said.

Seamus gazed into the distance and remained silent for a moment before smiling faintly. "Miss, am I useless?"

"What are you saying?!"

"I can't even protect you..."

A sense of guilt crawled over Persephone's heart like ivy on a wall.

"Don't be like this." She looked at him. "If not for you this time, I wouldn't know what terrible things might have happened... Seamus, thankfully, you're by my side."

"Really?" Seamus turned around.

looked even gloomier, like thick dark clouds on the horizon. There was an indescribable

choose between me and

was taken aback, her hands subconsciously fiddling

again." Seamus forced a smile. "Morpheus is the one you like, and I, to put it nicely, am your bodyguard.

"Seamus!"

a time from her childhood when she had been riding a horse, and the horse had been alarmed out of the blue. It had galloped around the track with her. She had been terrified, screaming, and it was Seamus who had

to use that method to save someone. And Seamus, at that time, was just a teenage boy. He could have easily lost his life to the horse's hooves,

do is for you." His voice was hoarse. "Don't worry. Once I'm healed, I'll ensure you get

dimmed slightly. "Focus on healing first. Right now,

to meet him

time. As he entered a dark corner of the bar, there was only one table there, oddly out of place in

a cup of lukewarm water. His countenance revealed

him but immediately stood up, afraid of upsetting

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