Chapter 15

“... Where is she?”

“We do not know she is currently, we only have a gue-”

“WHERE IS MY DAUGHTER?!”

“... Possibly at the Opal Palace. Inhabiting my body.”

She’s done it.

Good Goddess she’s done it.

“Fa-” I don’t manage to call out to Father before he slams the door of the greenhouse behind him.

He’s furious, I’ve never seen him so furious.

But what did I expect? She just suddenly revealed herself to be a fake, and that his daughter might be in a different body.

Damn it, we’d be lucky if he doesn’t report all of this to the Church in an attempt to set things right.

“Ann! Why did you- What the f-”

“I couldn’t.” Ann speaks so calmly. “I’m sorry, Phoenix. I couldn’t keep up a lie in front of him. I can’t. Not to someone so loving and worried.”

Her words are so sincere that it was hard to get mad at her. Her expression so pained but so controlled it was hard to believe that she and Rosanna are of the same age.

I thought the same that night she found me in the hallway.