A Truth Behind the Lie

"Envious of what? Me?"

I asked, confused about her words. Vendetta slowly nodded her head before looking out of the window, staring at the dark skies that looked heavy and were about to fall as rain.

"Yes, I envy how you have someone you'd risk causing a time paradox for."

"... Right, there's that too."

I scratched my head.

If I saved Fatima, then the part about her defeating the Void Beast would become impossible to achieve. She and the Void Beast were connected, so its death was connected to her death too. Taking her out of the equation before the Void Beast died would cause a paradox in the timeline and maybe destroy the one we were currently living in during the process.

"You sound like you had one like that too..."

I couldn't help but feel the nostalgia within her words, so I asked her to steer the conversation away from me. Vendetta smiled sweetly but was tinged with bitterness.

"Yes. I [had]... I failed to save him, though."