Ru Hiana woke up from her sleep, and had trouble falling asleep again. While lying on the bed, she looked around the room and felt a bit overwhelmed. It seemed just yesterday that she had slept out in the open, near where the statue of Shahnaz was. But the last couple of days, she was able to sleep where she wanted and walk freely around the fortress. The memories of her being tormented by hunger or hesitating to even take a couple of steps outside seemed like a dream. Just because of a single person’s return, it seemed everything had changed.

Although she felt a sense of her own incompetence as a hero, Ru Hiana felt more joyful than anything else; this was partly because she had the utmost rosy view of Chi-Woo. But soon, these feelings made way for an anxiety that she couldn’t quite put into words.

Questions like ‘What if it was all a dream?’ and ‘What if he disappeared again?’ rang through her mind. After rolling around this way and that, she abruptly sat up.

“I can’t stand it anymore,” she murmured before getting off the bed and going outside.

What she was planning to do wasn’t illegal trespassing at all. She was doing this simply out of concern for the well-being of a great hero whom she admired. She would just check to see if Chi-Woo was sleeping peacefully and return. Stealthily, Ru Hiana trespassed into Chi-Woo’s house, but soon burst out in...