Pasival’s sudden entrance not only stirred up Melusina’s emotions, but even left Reiger somewhat surprised.

It’s not that he was unaware of the relationship between Pasival and Melusina.

He just didn’t expect that Pasival would suddenly burst in at this moment and save Melusina’s life.

Even more so, Pasival made an extraordinarily great sacrifice to save Melusina.

"The chosen lance, although it was the holy spear brought by the savior from the Inner Sea of the Ashen Star, had already transformed during the era of fairies. Due to the savior’s discontent, anger, and resentment towards the burgeoning fairies, it reversed and became a weapon of extreme danger."

Looking at Pasival’s half-white, half-black hair, Reiger spoke expressionlessly.

"Using this lance usually doesn’t pose any issue, but once its true power is unleashed, the bearer will endure an astonishing burden, even leading to a reduction of their lifespan."

"That strike you just made took away at least ten years of your life."

"In the Briton Lostbelt, humans have an average lifespan of only 30 years."

Indeed, humans in the Briton Lostbelt have notoriously short lifespans.

This is because they are artificially created life, using human witches who once served the Beast God Cornus as samples.

Although in this Briton, they are somewhat stronger than humans from the Natural Human History, they can hardly live past 30 years as artificial life forms.

Pasival looks quite young, and indeed he is young, with his true age not even reaching 20.

But, at such an age, he’s already lived more than half his life.

Now, Pasival has further depleted his life force by using the holy lance, practically stepping one foot through death’s door.

"Though she’s your sister, is it worth it?"

Reiger did not mean to blame Pasival. He simply asked quietly.

Pasival didn’t respond to the question but instead offered Reiger a bitter smile and turned to the staggering Melusina.

"Can I talk to her?"

Pasival didn’t offer any explanation, just earnestly pleaded to Reiger.

Reiger also did not respond to Pasival’s query but turned his back, acting as if uninvolved.

"Thank you."

Pasival expressed his gratitude, bowed to Reiger, and then stood up with effort.

His body was extremely weak, almost on the verge of collapsing.

Yet he still struggled to pretend as if nothing was wrong, carrying the holy lance that nearly cost him his life, slowly approaching Melusina.

"..."

In that moment when their gazes locked, both fell silent.

"You shouldn’t have come."

Melusina broke the silence first, hoarsely speaking these words.

"No, you’re wrong." Pasival shook his head and, like a child, displayed an open smile he never showed before anyone else, softly saying, "If I didn’t come, then I would regret it."

"This has no meaning at all." Melusina said, lips trembling, "I’m destined to die for ’her,’ you should know this very well."

After being saved, what difference does it make?

As long as Reiger doesn’t abandon his plan to deal with that person, Melusina will never retreat.

And will Reiger not take action against that person?

That’s impossible.

In the previous aerial conversation above Camelot, Melusina had already sensed from Reiger’s attitude that this man was well aware of the relationship between ’her’ and herself, and what role ’she’ was playing secretly.

But that’s not the most crucial thing.

The most crucial thing is, from Reiger’s attitude, Melusina also saw that Reiger was extremely disgusted by ’her,’ even likely to take action against ’her.’

This is something Melusina cannot tolerate.

Therefore, she stepped out, willing to return to her true nature, reclaim her true name, and risk permanently losing her fairy form to fight Reiger to the death.

Otherwise, given Reiger’s current stance compared to ’her,’ there is no need for both sides to be locked in a life-or-death struggle like this.

Reiger wants to defeat Morgan, to take her down, and so does that person.

They should have been allies on the same side, yet because of the subtle attitude Reiger expressed, Melusina glimpsed a terrifying future that prompted her to prevent Reiger at all costs.

Pasival’s intervention was utterly unnecessary.

Because after surviving, Melusina would still charge at Reiger with her dual guns.

Her fate was already sealed, with no other outcome besides death.

If she doesn’t die, she will challenge Reiger again and again, trying to stop him.

Under such circumstances, Pasival’s sacrifice really holds no significance.

"Don’t you have things you want to do?"

"The Round Table... Though it’s just a group formed by weak humans, you are their leader, aren’t you?"

"You should be pursuing what you want to do rather than wasting time and life here pointlessly."

Melusina’s words were said with an expression of heartache.

Evidently, towards Pasival’s actions, instead of blame, she felt more sorrow.

Despite this, Pasival’s smile remained unchanged on his face.

"From the very start, there’s only ever been one thing I wanted to do."