Hours passed in silence. The egg inside Ruri was released once again to grow, but it needed to connect with her and start multiplying perfectly until it could transform into a fully developed fetus. This was a delicate process, especially when the goal was to conceive a child between two powerful beings.
Ruri remained lovingly wrapped around their neck, focusing all her willpower on that egg, willing it to grow. It was as if her connection to them was her greatest source of strength. In her mind, there was only one wish: to give this figure what he had lost. To her, that loss was an open wound in him, one that had never healed.
It was this wound that had led Bruno to decide, when they started anew at the Divinestone Clan, to keep that little maid close to them. Alm, who once radiated only vile malice, began to soften as the proximity to her reminded him of the child he never had.