First he described the working condition of the tower and while he was talking about it, his sad voice became even sadder. And hearing about these details, it was Venessa and Tessa who were most surprised.

They had always believed that becoming a scientist for the Starseer Tower was a dream job. There was no way that someone in this enviable position would ever be sad. But the truth turned out to be something else.

Then next Lance started to tell the ladies about how he had met his wife. While talking about this part, his voice became so happy and excited that it was very clear to see for everyone how he felt about this wife of his. And his love story was also quite interesting.

He had met with his wife in the towers. But she was not a scientist here and instead she was working as a cook for this canteen.

Lance had helped her out when a previous manager of this canteen was trying to put all the blame on her for a mistake that he had made.

After this incident, this lady, whose name Chi Chu, met with Lance again in order to thank him and cook a dinner for him with best of her abilities. During this time, both Chi Chu and Lance had a lot of conversation and they really had a very good time together.

After that, they continued to meet with one another whenever they had the time. This way both of them continued to get more and more closer.

Then finally on her birthday, Lance proposed to her which she accepted. It also turned out that she was also planning to propose to Lance on this same day.

That was how they started going out but they dated each other for only a month. That was because this one month was enough for both to truly understand the depth of their feelings for one another.

So just after one month of dating, Lance and Chi Chu got married. Their relationship went from being that if a lover to becoming husband and wife. And this was definitely an extremely happy moment in Lance’s life.

Then he used his authority and privileges as a senior researcher to give her a managerial position in the kitchen and they started to live together. And that was how, even in this terrible situation, Lance was able to not lose his mind and kept working hard on his research.

Then for the last week, his situation started to become worse and worse. Firstly, his research report was not given as much importance as he had hoped. It was only considered to be a minor report when according to his judgement, this was a very revolutionary things if it was actually successful.

When hearing about this part, Elena guessed that the higher ups of the Starseer Tower, who were responsible for judging this project, they were most probably aware of Oss’s true personality. So it made sense why they would dismiss this quite a decent research report very easily.

But Lance was obviously not aware of this. And because anything related to the will of this world was a very big, important and secretive deal, none of the higher ups told him about it. So it also made sense why Lance felt so disappointed in this situation.

Elena did not explain this matters to him for the time being. But she was definitely going to tell him about it after he was done speaking his heart out.

Then, after telling Elena and the other ladies about the bad reception of his research, finally Lance started to talk about the main topic, which was also the main reason why his mental condition was so terrible at this current moment.

He needed some time to make up his mind before he was ready to talk about the matter of his wife’s disease. That was also the reason why he was giving his life story to these strangers. And now, he was finally ready.

"A few days ago, my wife suddenly started to feel weak. I did not think too much about this and thought that she was maybe just tired.

But the situation became serious about she suddenly collapsed. So I immediately took her to the emergency medical facility of the Starseer Tower which is supposed to be one of the best in the whole world and not just this nation’s.

But the doctors there were unable to identify the disease that she was suffering from. Her symptoms were very generic but even after doing a detailed analysis of her body, the doctors were unable to find any kind of problem in her. She was perfectly fine health wise and was not even tired.

Even though this was a very suspicious situation, as my wife’s health was still fine, I tried to be positive. But then suddenly she started to age rapidly. And a mark that looked like an inverted tree appeared on her forehead.

The doctor again checked on her and said that she was under some kind of curse that was eating away at her life force. As for a way to stop it, the doctor had no idea.

So in this situation, my only option was to ask the help of an otherworlder who was knowledgeable about things like the curse and such. But finding a person like that here in this world is extremely tough. I will need at least a week to even have a chance of finding anyone like that.

But according to the doctor, she only had two or three days left at the rate at which she was losing her life force. So now I am here, a pathetic powerless person, who is just waiting for the news of my beloved death and to join her in afterlife soon afterwards."

After Lance stopped speaking, his face became so pale that it felt like he was about to fade away and disappear. His depression was very clear for anyone to see.

At this exact moment, one of the ladies spoke up. And this lady was not Elena. Instead it was Azusa who had been silent for almost the whole conversation. But now she had a very serious look on her face. Azusa asked Lance a question and from her tone of voice it was very clear that this question was very important.

"Was the inverted tree in your wife’s forehead violet in colour with the tree having a lot of routes ?"

As soon as Lance heard this question, colour returned to his face. What Azusa had said was entirely correct.

There was a reason why Lance was being so talkative about a private matter like this before these ladies from a different world. If was still hoping in his heart that one of them would have the ability of save his wife’s life. And now it looked like the heaven had not abandoned him completely.

So how was Azusa aware of this unknown disease that Chi Chu had ?