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Catherine was so angry that she laughed. If she didn't ask, she wouldn't know how many things this guy was hiding from her.

"I'm listening, Miss Lilith." She couldn't help but let out a strange tone in her words.

"Things may be a little more complicated than for people from another world..." Lilith was still carefully giving precautions.

The princess was now impatient. A dangerous smile flashed through her gray eyes, and she whispered, as if threatening and bewitching, "Don't worry. We in the Bishop family are born to keep secrets."

Lilith laughed dryly, feeling guilty, and slowly lowered her head under Catherine's close scrutiny. Just when Catherine thought she would continue to play dumb for a long time, Lilith's voice rang out faintly:

"——I may have seen this world twice."

...?

With no one else present, Catherine's face was filled with confusion. What was Lilith talking about? Was this the logic of someone from another world?

"Katherine Bishop."

Lilith suddenly called out her friend's full name again, but her tone was no longer as angry as before, instead revealing a hint of melancholy. She looked at the princess in front of her, who had grown into a qualified politician, and her heart was filled with mixed feelings, because she suddenly realized something -

"When I was little, I heard some anecdotes from my teacher. The Bishepu royal family's surname came from a gift from the gods."

"It's just a rumor without any basis."

Catherine didn't know why Lilith suddenly brought this up, but when she thought of those mysterious white robes, she instinctively resisted the idea and even sneered.

Lilith licked her dry lips and spoke in a very gentle tone, as if she was afraid of scaring the other person:

"But if...if I'm not mistaken, I should be the one who gave you your last name."

So thousands of years ago, when Catherine didn't even exist in the world, they were destined to be connected - when Lilith realized this, she was almost dizzy with shock at the script written by fate.

The smile on Catherine's lips froze.

"……what are you saying?"

After a long while, Catherine finally responded. The teasing and nonchalant look on her face disappeared, and for the first time tonight, she looked almost shocked.

The glory and weight of the surname Bishop were self-evident; even outside the Gaia Empire, it was a symbol of royal authority. As for the term "divinely favored clan," Catherine had always believed it was merely a combination of political propaganda and folk aestheticization.

Especially after the expansion of the Church of Light, this statement was more often used to tie it to doctrine. She herself had always been somewhat resistant to this, believing that it was just a tool to consolidate the church's authority.

But now, what did Lilith say?

Bestow?

This word is too strong.

"What do you mean by a surname bestowed by you?" Catherine pressed, her tone tinged with a slight tension she wasn't even aware of. "According to ancient rumors, the one bestowed with a surname by the gods was the Human King Zora, the founding emperor of the Gaia Empire. It's a story from a thousand years ago!"

Her eyes were fixed sharply on Lilith's face, trying to find any trace of joking or insanity, but Lilith's expression only showed an almost compassionate frankness and equally deep confusion.

She could only look through the empty potion bottle on the desk again, wondering if she had drunk something wrong without realizing it.

Lilith's face also turned pale. "I know how ridiculous this sounds. It took me a long time to accept this statement myself. Even now, I feel like I'm just listening to someone else's story."

"That's not funny, Lilith."

Catherine gave up fighting the potion, turned her head, and locked her gray eyes on Lilith, her tone becoming serious. She had a hunch that Lilith's next words would only make people more frightened.

"It's certainly not funny, but I came to this world thousands of years ago."

Sure enough—Catherine held her breath.

Having decided to confess, Lilith would no longer hide it. She didn't dare look into Catherine's sharp eyes. She could only lower her head and look at the hems of their skirts stacked together as she whispered:

"At that time, I wasn't Lilith Freyr. They said I came here in response to prayers, leading my people and even other allied tribes to repel the foreign enemies and fulfill my mission."

"them?"

"First, Zephirion—"

"That black dragon is so unreliable, how can we believe what he says!" Catherine felt her heart was about to jump out of her chest, and she could only raise her hand to hold it down.

"I know."

Lilith smiled bitterly. Aryan had laughed for a minute when she heard Zephirion tell her that he was his best and closest partner, which was enough to prove that the guy's words were only "for reference only."

"It's not just him... Remember Shadowlock? The dungeon there is controlled by a group of night elves. A few days ago, they came to me."

Catherine's pupils kept shrinking, and she thought of the mysterious female elf half hidden in the darkness. She was indeed looking for someone.

"Those night elves, they call me the Mother Goddess and believe that I am the incarnation of the World Tree..."

Afraid that Catherine still didn't understand, Lilith thought for a moment and explained further, "It's the golden tree on the Bishop family crest. Catherine, I am..."

The room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. Catherine watched Lilith's lips opening and closing, and felt as if she heard something. Her mind went blank, and she had no way to digest it. She only felt thunder exploding in her head.

The Elf Mother Goddess, the incarnation of the World Tree, the God Gaia...

God, the weight of this word far exceeds that of the person from another world just now.

"but……"

Lilith paused, trying to organize her words: "Logically, I should have gone home, but no one knows what happened after that.

Even everything about the 'God' is not something I remember; it's all what others told me. And in my memory, there are only my past world and this life."

She raised her head, her eyes filled with confusion and struggle:

"Can you understand, Catherine? I wasn't even sure that was really me. It felt terrible, like listening to someone else's epic adventure story that started out great but ended badly.

I don't want to hide it from you, but you've been too busy these days, and I really don't know how to tell you."

The hero who should have returned home in glory in the story died, and she was like an ignorant ghost crawling out of the ashes.

The room fell into true silence.

After a long, long time, the bell rang again, reminding everyone that the evening dinner was getting closer.

"What does... dead mean?" Catherine's voice was a little deeper and hoarse than usual.

Lilith hesitated for a moment, then forced a smile. "That's exactly what it says. So, I'm actually a time traveler and a reborn. This setup makes me the protagonist among protagonists. Maybe I was wrong before, maybe I'm the heroine..."

Her gag faded as Catherine leaned forward, suddenly throwing her arms around herself, forcing Lilith's face into Catherine's sun-kissed hair.

This made Lilith stunned for a moment, and then she hugged Catherine, who was trembling slightly.

"How could a god fall?" Catherine's voice was also trembling, but not because of fear.

If what Lilith said was true, it meant that her best friend had already died once. A sharp pain overwhelmed the initial shock, and she could almost imagine how helpless a soul must be, having completed its mission but unable to return home, and even its own existence becoming blurred.

"I don't know, you, don't be sad..." Lilith's voice came vaguely from her arms, and she patted her back gently.

Catherine held her arms tighter. Lilith shouldn't be the one to comfort her.

"It doesn't matter if you don't remember. You are Lilith, that's all."

Lilith quieted down after hearing this.

"You haven't returned with the memories and abilities of a god. You simply... bear the consequences of a god's fall." Catherine whispered gently in Lilith's ear. "Now, you are just Lilith. At most... a Lilith who knows a little more."

"If it is really the surname you gave me, I am very happy."

Lilith's tears suddenly burst out and all of them rubbed into Catherine's hair, but Her Royal Highness didn't seem to care. She gently stroked Lilith's hair and whispered in her ear:

"Once you leave this rainbow wall, don't mention a single word of today's conversation to anyone else."

Lilith looked at Catherine in surprise as she let go of her and turned back into the familiar working princess.

"I want to know all the details." Catherine took a deep breath and turned all her emotions into a decision:

"The fall a thousand years ago wasn't normal, was it?"

The crown prince of the Bishop dynasty keenly smelled a conspiracy.