"Join you...?"
The tree looked at me with a confused expression. Blinking its red eyes, it stared intently at me.
Under such gaze, I felt my chest tighten.
It was a bit of a gamble on my end, but it was something that I was willing to risk my life for. To be able to align myself with a being this powerful... It would certainly make my life a lot easier in the future.
There were also Delilah and Atlas, who I could consider allies and were powerful.
'Another twisted relationship...'
.....Every second that I spent with them was a second where I had to be extra careful with my words and actions.
One slip-up and I was done for.
It was for that reason that I couldn't necessarily consider them true allies.
But it wasn't like I minded this twisted relantionship. So long as it benefitted me, who was I to care? The same was true for the tree.
One slip-up and I was done. And yet, I couldn't help myself.
