True Despair [2]

Jack had a terrible expression on his face. 

Confronted like this, even he could not keep smiling.

"Look, I'm not from this timeline. I'll have to leave one day, so—"

"Yes or no."

He gritted his teeth, and his jaw tightened visibly.

Seeing his struggling expression made Emma's heart flutter strangely.

She felt something weird awakening inside her, but she suppressed it. This wasn't the time or place for it.

"You are my ancestor," Jack finally admitted the truth he had been hiding for decades. "The closeness you felt when you saw me was because of our bloodline resonance.

"You asked why I could use multiple phylacteries like you, right? It's because it's the ability I inherited from—"

"Yes or no."

Her voice cut through his confusion like a blade.

Emma wasn't stupid enough not to understand Jack had her bloodline after seeing how similar his abilities were to hers.