Alice couldn't speak for a while. What forgiveness and small punishment? The only thing on her mind were the memories of that day. The emotions she felt when she lost everything. Although she is fine now, those memories are still fresh.

Alice sighed. 'What should I do, Mom?'

[You want to help her?] Mia asked curiously.

After a moment of thought, she said, 'Yes.'

[Then just remember what you longed for most after that incident.]

Alice remembered that loneliness when nothing was left for her. That was something she would never want to experience.

[She is the same, though there are some differences in your situation from hers. The emotions she is feeling are the same.]

[Your revenge ended early and if you hadn't met Shin, you would have accepted your death under that rubble. But she is in the process of her revenge. If she doesn't have any other purpose to live, then maybe even if she gets her revenge she will be left with nothing and her end would be miserable.]

Alice could imagine what will happen if this continued. Because she had been in the same situation. She knows exactly how she is feeling.

'Ugh, if I had killed her, it wouldn't be so troublesome.'

[...] Mia was speechless. But she didn't give any advice.

'Fine, Mom, you win. I've been lucky enough to be saved by Shin. So, I'll try to help her too.'

[Good Luck, I'll go. Robin is calling me.] Mia.

***

Looking at Aurora, she bit her lips and with some hesitation, she finally walked towards her and said solemnly. "Aurora, let's have a chat."

Alice gave a small glance at Shin, gesturing not to worry she will handle everything. Shin was a little worried that they might fight again, but still nodded hesitantly.

Aurora looked at Alice and wondered what she wanted to say.

"What? Do you want to sneak attack and kill me?" Aurora said sarcastically, but still followed Alice.

"No, I wouldn't, as long as you don't try anything stupid." Alice's tone was plain but threatening.

Aurora didn't care and followed her. After they were a little distance far from everyone.

Alice looked at Aurora with a firm expression and asked.historical

"Did they kill your family?"

Aurora instantly looked at Alice with sharp eyes and asked, "How did you know?"

Alice sighed and asked, "Will you tell me about it?"

Aurora was a little taken aback. She didn't expect Alice to ask something like that, and what was that look on her face? Is that pity?

Aurora was a little annoyed, but seeing Alice's sincere expression, she calmed down.

'Alice, who is so obsessed with Shin, is curious about me?' She felt a little incredulous. Though they didn't know each other for long, she still has a little understanding of her based on her judgement.

Aurora hesitated, but finally decided to tell her. "Okay. So listen."

Aurora started telling her past. Her loving family, the betrayal they got, their death, her grief, and her reason for revenge. The changes in her expression changed from sadness to anger and then loneliness. Alice noticed all, but she didn't say anything. She quietly listened.

After she was done, she looked at Alice and asked, "How was it quite pitiful, right?"

Without waiting for her answer, she continued.

"You probably won't understand because you are happy. You have a nice lover and with your strength, I don't think you will have a problem surviving."

Alice looked at Aurora as if she was looking at a retard. But she didn't get angry, only felt even more pity for her.

"What's with that look?" Aurora said in annoyance. That wasn't the reaction she was expecting from her.

Alice didn't answer, instead she asked a question. "Do you think a relation of blood is stronger than any other?"

"Yes," Aurora answered instantly. For vampires, blood is everything. Power, status, bonds everything is dependent on blood.

*Giggles*

Seeing Alice laugh, Aurora frowned in dissatisfaction.

"What? Do you think it's wrong?"

Alice stopped giggling and asked rhetorically. "If that's the case, why did your uncle betray your father?"

"As I said, Valor's mother and my grandmother are different people. So our blood is different." Aurora said with indifference.

Tapping her chin with her fingers, Alice uttered, "Then tell me something."

Aurora wondered what Alice wanted to say now.

"Because of my biological father, my mother and stepfather died," Alice said plainly, but remembering that trash, her eyes became cold.

Aurora pupils shark as she heard this. But controlling her emotions, she continued listening.

"Then I wanted to take revenge. So I tortured him. I cut all his fingers and broke his hands." She had a gleeful smile when she said that.

Then, with a hint of disappointment, she continued. "Unfortunately, he escaped from my hands and died before I could even kill him."

"I was lost. There was nothing left for me in this world. No family, no friends."

When Aurora saw Alice's dark expression. She felt her heart beating faster and her breathing became intense. She didn't know that. She never expected Alice, who was always childish and obsessive towards Shin, to have such a past.

Aurora felt a sense of closeness with her as she heard her method of revenge. She felt they were extremely similar. But there was a difference. Alice's eyes were lively, unlike Aurora, who felt dead inside her heart.

"I wanted to die."

When Aurora heard Alice's statement, her eyes widened. Because she had also thought of dying countless times, but because her revenge is incomplete, she could never take that step.

"But then he came into my life and saved me."

At this moment, a soft smile appeared on Alice's face, which surprised Aurora. Because it was the same feeling she got from Alice whenever she was with Shin.

Alice calmed her emotion and once again looked at Aurora as she asked.

"Now tell me Aurora, after listening to my past, what do you think? Do you still think a relation of blood is stronger than any other?"