The Fantasy Adventure We Were Promised Somehow Turned Me into the Heroine of a Romance Game? (Part Three)

(For the earlier chapters and related setting, see Parts One and Two of The Promised Fantasy Adventure Somehow Turned Me into the Heroine of a Dating Sim?~)

Chapter 10: A Battle of Hearts

Qianxia slowly opened her heavy eyelids. An unguarded, soft whimper escaped her throat.

"Mm..."

The tender little sound startled even her. Before she could recover from the embarrassment, a dull ache in her ankle shot through her like an electric current, bringing back all the awful things that had happened yesterday. She wriggled on the bed like a caterpillar, and her pair of smooth, fair calves tried to reach out