OVER 200 YEARS AGO III

Ceres and Belle were stupefied. Belle already had a feeling that this might have been the case since Fortunata mistook her for the princess. Yet seeing the sketch right now; if not for the fact that it was sketched a long time ago, she would really think it was her being plastered in this book. 

"Ceres, my goddess – my princess, the one and only," Belle read aloud while caressing the book. "I really looked like her." 

[Is this one of the reasons why our compatibility is high? Is it because you look like her?] Ceres asked Belle when she remembered what the monk said the last time they visited the temple. 

(That could be a possibility. However, why is your general's soul not inside Eli? How will you fulfill your wish of being with him?)