“I won’t return.”

It was an unexpected answer. Kim Jin-Woo had been expecting Morrigan to choose to return given the choice. After all, she had a bad habit of always talking about her glorious past.

However, she had broken his expectations and chosen to remain in the Fortress. The entire plan he’d had in his head just fizzled. He could only ask, “Why is that so? Do you not miss your old master?”

“I only learned the pride of being a warrior from my old master. Let’s just say that my feelings towards my old master aren’t the same as the kind of longing I would have towards my parents,” Morrigan answered.

“Ah…” How had Kim Jin-Woo only noticed this now? Morrigan had always looked at him with an unwavering gaze. And the expression on her face right now was one of rebuking him for testing her loyalty.

“And the Master I know is an extremely tenacious being who will never let go of anything that is in his grasp, even under the threat of Parthenon. I never expected him to even entertain the thought of letting me go,” Morrigan added.

Kim Jin-Woo had forgotten one critical point. Even before she was known as a fierce warrior, Morrigan was a highly skilled tactician. What he had just witnessed in front of his eyes only further solidified this point.

He’d had no desire to let her go in the first...