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When Lux said that, Myra felt as if she were plunged into the depths of hell.

She froze and didn't even cry anymore; slightly opening her mouth, she didn't say anything, and only watched Lux in silence.

"Don't think that I'm seven years old. Something like that was on my mind for a while, but then I saw that you and Mark didn't have any plans to get together. This made me wonder..."

"Why aren't they a couple yet?"

"It was only later that I ran into you two again, but you didn't see me. Then I heard your conversation for a while; your words didn't match the previous actions at all. From that moment, I knew everything that happened was a play; something for me to hear and then give up on you."

"But... This doesn't mean you had the right to decide that." As Lux said that, his expression grew increasingly serious. "I didn't want to get involved with you after that, even if I was countless times stronger."