"In her heart, she still waited for Noin to extend his hand to her before everything ultimately came to an end.She pushed such a miserable wish to the back of her mind, putting a lid on it.Revenge and wishes were different.‘Who would save you’; ‘who would kill you’——it all came down to that."

"He wanted to give her all the happiness in the world.—therefore someday, surely, that brilliant smile of hers would return. Then, onward, she would continue to smile.That was all he ever wanted—such was the form of Noin’s devotion, after finally finding his one and only."

"Perhaps after that tragedy, she had no heart left. Or perhaps it was still there, but small.However, she had decided to love that person in whatever way she could inside that small heart."

"Dia had lived her entire life without touching what shouldn’t be touched.The thought that in some cases, it might shed a lot of blood stirred Dia’s heart.However, this cold man, who always deemed everything human-related as ‘troublesome’, for the sake of enabling her to live to her utmost and survive, touched a lot of inconvenient things without ever mentioning any of them."

"But, in truth, there really was no reason at all.He just found her to be his one and only, thus sincerely yearned for her."