Only then did Alva snap out of his trance. “Irina… so… sorry.”

Alva scolded himself harshly in his heart. He must have been possessed. Irina was so aggrieved that she cried, yet he didn’t discover it.

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Irina struggled to break free, then lowered her head and looked at her own hands in a dazed manner, tears slipping down her cheeks continuously.

She had clearly wanted to use Curtis’s strength to shove Alva into the water, but why did she end up using Damien’s strength? Damien’s greatest edge was his agility. If it wasn’t for the fact that she hadn’t considered that the strength she would be using would be...