"Leon, I promise you this," Ilyana said. "After this battle, I won't leave your side ever again."
Ilyana hugged Leon, and when their forehead touched each other, she passed some of her memories to him. The last years they had before the first Reset. The time where they raised their kids. Leon frowned when that happened but soon smiled afterward. Somehow, he felt that he had expected something like that would happen. Those weren't the same memories that he once had, but he still felt strangely satisfied in seeing them from Ilyana's perspective.
"Got it," Leon said.
The sense of familiarity between them returned a little. That is right, Ilyana still had that opportunity. She didn't have to fear for more moments where Leon would treat her like a stranger. Even though mana was the energy created by the system's creator, mana itself wasn't something evil that they should reject. They still could use their old abilities to solve problems like that.
