Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1019

Chapter 1019: Chapter 1019 - Taming Impossible Puzzles - 3

Luna didn’t answer immediately.

She looked at Liora.

Then she reached into the shadows of her chest and took out the crystal.

It was brighter than this morning. Not dramatically, but the degree Ren had added was perceptible, that specific warmth Luna recognized in a way that had nothing to do with mana perception.

"Ren is repairing even something like this," she said, quietly but without the fragility from before, something closer to the steady voice she had when she had reached a conclusion and was holding it. "I can’t compare myself to him in any way that would justify trying to support him alone... I’d only be a burden and get in the way of his full potential."

Larissa nodded. That was the correct argument from the political perspective she managed... Ren was too significant for any individual set of interests to claim alone, possibly including the three of theirs combined. Something that was a key to the entire world didn’t get administered well in small parcels. That’s how big wars start.

But Liora jumped in.

"That doesn’t work either!"

Both of them looked at her.

"That’s not ’love’, that’s low self-esteem and admiration!" Liora went red but said it with the voice of someone being more direct than was comfortable but who had decided that discomfort was the least important cost of this conversation. "...It’s not... it’s not love."

She went redder saying the word again.

But she kept going anyway.

"You can’t build a family on that... It’s not enough." She looked at the crystal in Luna’s hands and then at Luna herself. "It has to be real love or it doesn’t work!"

Silence.

Larissa searched for the next argument, the one that left the idealism aside and arrived at something more concrete, something that didn’t depend on the word Liora had just put on the table with such difficulty, the word that was also exactly the one that made everything so hard.

Luna got there first.

"It is love."

Liora looked at her.

"I love Ren." Luna said it with a flatness even she didn’t expect saying it out loud to another person for the first time.

Truth that has been known internally for long enough that saying it out loud doesn’t change it, only makes it exist in more places.

"But it isn’t only him." She paused, finding the right way in. "When we synchronized our power to help him, when we connected to his internal network... I could feel our energies working at the same frequency, toward the same purpose, and I have never felt less alone than in that moment. That’s when I understood... You have been my support all the worst part of my life." She looked at both of them. "I love you too."

Liora didn’t respond.

"And even though it hurts," Luna continued, "even though there’s a part of me that wants everything for itself and wants to fight that with everything it has... I wouldn’t want to be one of the two who ends up outside after losing the fight. And I wouldn’t even want to have to fight you." She put the crystal away. "Because I’d carry that for the rest of my life too."

Larissa watched both of them.

Liora had the face of someone processing something she hadn’t expected to receive in this conversation. Not the political proposal, not the practical argument... This. The one that had no applicable logic because it wasn’t a logical problem at its origin. The one that landed differently because it was true and because the person saying it had more reason than anyone to be saying the opposite.

Luna was...

Selphira had taught Liora to be direct. To not apologize for wanting what you wanted and to not cede ground just because ceding it was more comfortable than holding it.

But when what you wanted was this, when it was something like this...

It was too much to digest.

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