Let them live with that regret for the rest of their lives!

Wendy shook her head. She still had many experiments to do and didn't have time to stay with Elise for the time being. Once she finished dealing with these matters, she would be able to spend more time with Elise.

"Okay, then I'll have Vanessa come over to find you."

"Ah."

Stepping into the teleportation array, Elise was instantly transported back to the manor's basement in a daze.

Just as Elise stepped out of the basement, preparing to return to her room to rest, the manor gate was suddenly pushed open forcefully, and a cheerful voice rang out: "I'm back!"

Elise recognized the voice immediately; it belonged to Nora.

Elise twitched the corner of her mouth and then said, "Be careful with your movements, this door is very expensive."

Hearing Elise's words, Nora couldn't help but shrink back. In the past, she wouldn't have cared how expensive the door was, but now, in order to acquire more ancient weapons, she was even poorer than Elena.

Ever since she started collecting ancient weapons, her family thought she had gotten involved in something she shouldn't have.

Although she felt a little disheartened, Nora was still the same old blockhead, quickly putting the matter out of her mind and walking briskly to Elise's side: "I'm back, is this how you welcome me?"

Nora had obviously just been brought back by Sally, and her clothes were dirty, torn, and smelled strange.

Elise silently took half a step back and said with a look of disgust, "Don't come near me until you've taken a shower!"

Nora then remembered that Elise was a bit of a germaphobe, and that she was indeed likely to be disliked by Elise in her current state. But that was precisely why she wanted to seize this opportunity and bully this bad woman.

Seeing Nora approaching her again, Ellie unleashed a magical attack on her without hesitation.

However, Nora seemed to have anticipated Elise's actions. She cut through the magical shockwave and moved closer to Elise again: "It's only been a few days, how come you've become so distant? It seems you need a warm hug to remind you of our relationship."

"Nora, if you dare touch me, you're dead!" Elise let out a sharp screech, then used a combination of gravity magic and magical shock to quickly create distance between herself and Nora.

Just as Nora was about to continue, she suddenly heard a soft sigh: "If you keep pursuing this, she'll get angry."

Nora blinked, then realized that Elise was glaring at her angrily. Thinking of the consequences of Elise's anger, Nora felt a little guilty. She coughed twice and said, "Okay, I was just joking. I'm going to take a shower right now!"

After saying that, Nora quickly went back to her room to take a shower.

She didn't want to be constantly disliked by Elise.

Watching Nora's retreating figure, Elise couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. Based on her understanding of Nora's blockheaded nature, she shouldn't have stopped at a time like this, but she hadn't expected her to restrain herself just now.

It seems that her efforts have paid off; at least she appears to have grasped the concept a little.

It took Nora more than half an hour to finally come out of the bathroom.

As soon as Nora stepped out of the bathroom, she saw Elise sitting on her bed with her legs crossed and an impatient look on her face, clearly waiting for her.

"Can't wait to hug me?" Nora moved closer to Elise again, opening her arms.

However, this time Ibalis did not dodge. As long as Nora's body wasn't dirty, she could accept the hug.

Nora didn't stand on ceremony and hugged Elise tightly, feeling her slightly thin body and the familiar scent of morning dew and flowers.

It had only been less than half a month since she left, but it felt like a long time had passed, so long that she had begun to miss everything about Elise.

Feeling Nora's heavy breathing on her neck, Elise said irritably, "Dinner is about to start, I suggest you restrain yourself."

Hearing Elise's words, Nora snapped out of her daze. She awkwardly let go of her hand, scratched her head, and said, "Um, why do you seem even more attractive now that it's been a while?"

"Thank you for being so eloquent." Elise twitched the corner of her mouth. She guessed that Nora was probably affected by her own pleasure power, which was why she almost started a fight just now.

"Oh, right, I also brought you a gift. See if you like it." Nora's spatial ring flashed, and a cat brooch appeared in her hand.

"I discovered this by chance. If you infuse it with magic, it can temporarily make people grow cat ears and a cat tail," Nora said as she infused magic into the brooch.

As magic was injected into the brooch, Nora's head sprouted a pair of fluffy cat ears, and a swaying cat tail emerged from under her skirt.

Elise raised an eyebrow, surprised that Nora would give her this.

Logically speaking, the place she was sent to shouldn't have this kind of product. If she remembered correctly, the cat brooch should be in a remote town, which was quite far from the ancient ruins Nora was going to.

How did she get this thing?

"Actually, I had already explored the ruins a few days ago, but I hadn't decided what gift to bring you. Later, I asked the one residing in my body, and it was He who gave me the suggestion."

"Ok?"

Elise raised an eyebrow. When did the Valkyrie become so gentle? She was even giving Nora this kind of advice.

Although it's a toy, Elise actually quite likes it.

She reached out and rubbed Nora's cat ears, then stroked her tail, a faint smile appearing on her face.

Nora, being petted like a cat, felt Elise's movements and a faint blush rose on her face: "Stop touching me, or you'll rub all my fur off."

"This is your punishment for trying to hug me when you were all dirty."

Nora opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but since she was in the wrong first, she could only endure the strange feeling and let Elise do as she pleased.

Fortunately, this didn't last long, and it was time for dinner. She stuffed the cat brooch in her hand into Elise's hand, then pretended to be starving and rushed out of the room.

Volume 1: Chapter 483 The Clever Vivian

"Huh? You're already back."

Elena, who was already seated at the dining table, showed a look of surprise when she saw Nora rush in.

"I just got back, I guess you're probably sleeping, so it's normal that you don't know." Nora chuckled twice to cover up her embarrassment. She regretted not giving Elise a demonstration earlier.

Based on her understanding of Elise, the other woman must know the effect of that brooch.

However, on the other hand, it hasn't been that long since she last saw her, and she felt that Elena seemed to have become much stronger. The speed at which she became stronger was too fast!

Even though she sleeps all day, how can Elena possibly get stronger while sleeping?

Also, she wasn't sure if it was just her imagination, but she felt that Elena's demeanor seemed a little different from before.

But before she could observe carefully, Elise went to the dining table.

Upon seeing Elise, Nora reacted like a mouse encountering a cat, immediately running to Elena's side.

Elena glanced at Nora with some oddness, but she quickly noticed that Nora's gaze was evasive when she looked at Elise. She guessed that Nora must have been bullied by that wicked woman, Elise.

"Does looking at me mean you'll get enough to eat?" Elise said with a hint of helplessness.

"It's not that it's not a bad thing, actually." Nora muttered softly. Watching Elise certainly wouldn't fill her stomach, but she was pleasing to the eye. Watching her eat made her eat even better.

"By the way, has the academy already started classes? What if I missed it?"

"You won the championship in the inter-college competition. Even if you don't go to the college afterwards, the college will still guarantee that you can graduate."

"Oh, I'd forgotten about it if you hadn't mentioned it." Nora scratched her head. She hadn't taken the championship to heart at all, since neither she nor Brooke had gone all out back then.

It has to be said that Brook is still very strong. If she hadn't gathered the strength of everyone, it would have been very difficult for her to defeat him. However, she is even stronger now than last time. If she encounters Brook again, she would like to fight him again.

Nora did not stay at Elise's manor tonight because her parents had recently come to Seria's place, and she needed to go back and stay for a few days after not seeing them for a long time.

Elise went directly to Vivian's residence shortly after Nora left.

As soon as they entered Vivian's mansion, they saw two guards carrying away a corpse. Vivian's head maid also said to Iris apologetically, "I'm very sorry that you had to see this."

"Nothing much, has Vivian been assassinated again?"

"Yes, a sixth-level assassin, I don't know where he got the courage from."

"After all, her identity has not been made public, so many people still regard her as an ordinary noblewoman."

“I think so.” The maid nodded, then respectfully said to Iris, “Miss Vivian is in her room. Let me take you up.”

"Okay, please."

The head maid simply led Elise to the room door and left. Elise knocked on the door, then pushed it open and went inside.

As you can see, Vivian is still engrossed in processing various documents, and even her personal maid is helping her organize them.

Upon seeing Elise enter, Vivian turned to her personal maid and said, "You may leave now."

"Yes."

After her personal maid left, Vivian looked at Elise and said calmly, "Come here."

"Oh." Elise slowly walked to Vivian's side. She had thought that Vivian had called her over to do something strange to her, and she had even begun to look forward to it... no, she had already prepared herself.

But to Elise's surprise, when she walked to Vivian's side, Vivian stood up abruptly, then pressed Elise back into her wheelchair, pointing to the many unfinished documents on the desk and saying, "Finish all of these."

Elise blinked, her feigned shyness freezing on her face. She forced a smile and said, "You called me here just to do this kind of thing?"

"Otherwise, I've been busy ever since the memory ended, and now I want to rest."

Elise sighed softly and said, "Alright, alright, I'll take care of it for you now."

She had done this kind of thing countless times when she was by Vivian's side, and even after so much time had passed, she was still adept at handling these matters now.

He could even chat with Vivian while processing documents: "I just saw a body being carried out. Do you know who sent it?"

"I don't know. I've offended quite a few people lately. Maybe some ignorant little noble sent them." As she said this, Vivian deliberately glanced at Iris.

She hadn't forgotten that she had been bullied by Elise for a while back then. At the time, because her memories of her past life suddenly awakened, she didn't pursue those matters. Now that she thought about it, she felt it would be a bit unreasonable not to bully Elise properly.

However, Vivian was not the kind of person who would be controlled by desires. She quickly realized that Elise's behavior in the past was completely different from her current behavior.

If the change was due to the awakening of memories from a past life, then that would make sense.

However, judging from her own awakened memories, the transformation of her previous life as Elise seemed to be just as sudden, even somewhat abrupt.

Does this mean that it wasn't Elise's first rebirth?

"How many times have you been reborn?"

Elise, who was engrossed in her work, paused for a moment after hearing Vivian's words. Then she looked up at Vivian with some confusion: "Why are you suddenly asking about this?"

"I just suddenly remembered some memories from my past life, so I was a little curious."

"As expected of Vivian, she discovered my biggest secret with just a casual thought." Iris sighed softly, then said with a melancholy expression, "Actually, I've been reborn several times, otherwise how could I, a useless person, have undergone such a great change?"

"In your past life, did you choose to depend on me because I did something to you that forced you to do so?"

"For someone who hates me so much to do something like this, can I assume that I killed you before?" Vivian didn't even realize that her voice seemed to tremble slightly as she said this.

"Why do you think so?"

"Because, according to my personality, if you have no use to me, then you who have bullied me are doomed to die."

Volume 1: Chapter 484 Being Too Clever Isn't Good

Elise had to admit that Vivian was incredibly clever. She had originally thought that since the other party hadn't mentioned it when she awakened her memories, she had successfully fooled her.

Unexpectedly, Vivian came up with so many ideas just by thinking about them casually.

She even suspected that if Vivian had more information, she might be able to deduce that her initial reliance on Vivian was not only for survival but also for revenge.

"Actually, it's not as serious as you say. It's just that our family fell into decline because of you."

"Do you think I'm the kind of person who would leave myself a future problem?" Vivian clearly didn't believe what Elise was saying.

She knew herself very well. Although Elise had been a complete airhead in the past, she was just too beautiful, so beautiful that even women might be attracted to her.

While disfiguring her isn't out of the question, it would be too much trouble, and there are plenty of ways to restore one's appearance in this world. So, nipping the threat in the bud is definitely the most direct approach.

It was because of this thought that Vivian was basically certain that she had killed Elise back then.

"Clearly, there are some things that are better left unsaid," Elise muttered softly.

“There are some things that you can’t simply choose not to know.” Vivian’s voice sounded somewhat low.

Just then, Vivian suddenly smelled the morning dew and floral fragrance that belonged to Elise. She subconsciously looked up and found that Elise, who had just been sitting in her wheelchair, had somehow moved closer to her. Before she could react, she was already being held in someone's arms.

"The past is the past. Even if you killed me back then, it was because I was too arrogant and domineering."

Although reason told Vivian that she and Elise had no relationship at that time, and that killing her was just a normal thing for Elise to do, Vivian felt a sharp pain in her heart whenever she thought about killing Elise.

It was just like the feeling I had when I saw Elise die in my memory.

“I’ve long forgotten what you did to me back then. If I still cared, do you think I’d be here saying these things to you now?” Elise stared straight at Vivian, her eyes filled with a burning love that seemed to scorch her.

At this moment, Elise couldn't help but recall the scene of her dying because of Vivian, as well as the memories of being by Vivian's side. The collision and entanglement of these two completely different emotions ultimately revealed this twisted and morbid love.

She wanted to make Vivian feel guilty, to make her feel indebted to her, and ultimately to make her give everything for her.

Feeling the soft touch on her lips, Vivian instinctively wanted to refuse. She had killed Elise and made Elise give everything. Could she really accept the other's love so easily?

But Elise gave her no chance to refuse; the power of pleasure blossomed at that moment, pulling Vivian into a sea of ​​desire.

As Vivian succumbed to lust, memories of her past life kept surfacing in her mind.

She saw Elise shield her from an assassination attempt and be severely wounded; she saw Elise bear all sorts of infamy for her sake; she saw the smile Elise gave her before her head hit the ground…

"Having a nightmare again?"