To Be Loved

Nilrem's laughter was sad and broken.

Life liked to play jokes. The Demoness had only truly fallen in love twice in her life, though that wasn't for lack of trying.

Every time she forced her husband of the past to reincarnate in some way or form, she tried to be with him. But that ended tragically almost every time.

Nilrem's stories of being chased by Empresses, or how emasculated he had been in the Luxnix Clan, these weren't foolish facades or made-up tales. 

They were his truth; they were the tapestry woven between him and the Demoness.

Him and Ophelia.

The second time she fell in love—the second time she lost herself in a man, an iteration of Nilrem—was Velasco's father, Leonel's grandfather: I.

She really had loved him. She had given him her life and everything, birthing two children for him.