"I eventually came to see it as nothing more than a performance, a way to comfort and deceive those clan members who still had expectations."
"I had thought that I could only be free once all the members of our family had grown old or died."
"I didn't expect that day to come so soon..."
Her tone held some wistfulness, but there was also a sense of relief that wasn't present before.
Matthew looked at her and said,
"But you were already assimilated by the Blood River Will, weren't you?"
He had noticed very obvious demonic traits in her.
Sandrine bit her lip,
"Of course."
"Living in purgatory for generations unavoidably leads to contamination by the Blood River Will..."
"Even the most devout believers find it hard to completely resist..."
Matthew smiled.
He didn't continue to press down on her pitiful pride and false devoutness.
In his eyes,
the decline of the Seistan Family was likely due to their own doing.
