With her elegantly swept-back lavender hair and her intelligent and refined features, the Second Mage resembled Tigrea almost exactly.

Perhaps because she was born a royal, despite her haggard appearance, she still maintained a certain level of dignity as she spoke arrogantly.

“Have you completed your research on affection, No. 144?”

“Not yet.”

“Hmm, judging by the way you speak, it seems you’re still far from it. Pathetic.”

Despite being a sinner, she was incredibly insolent.

However, Denarua remained silent—for now.

“Researching human emotions is a desire as innate to us dolls as our very existence. We’ve completed studies on all other extreme emotions, but love remains unconquered. Only by mastering it can a doll become a complete human.”

It was something she had heard hundreds of times.

Like the vampire experiments on Zramun Island, the ancient kingdom used a woman from a royal family, known for their high magical aptitude, as the base to cultivate dolls for generations, raising them as both combat weapons and useful scholars.

After fulfilling their roles, the dolls were given the freedom to study one thing of their choosing, and all of them chose to research human emotions.

They studied and documented emotions with unique characteristics, such as anger, sadness, and anxiety, but they were stumped by love.

Why do people fall in love? Why do they feel the urge to sacrifice themselves for love? Why do they feel betrayal because of love? Why do they feel joy because of love?

This emotion, with its countless derivatives, was an unsolved mystery even after generations of research.

Every doll that researched love inevitably fell in love, without understanding why, and ended up committing irreparable acts, leading to their ruin.

Just like the current Second Mage.

Love made the dolls incomplete, awkward imitations of humans.

“I believed that, of all the dolls, you, with your lack of talent, could observe this emotion objectively, without being consumed by it.”@@novelbin@@

“The original seems to be at peace, despite her sins.”

Tigrea shot back sharply, causing the Second Mage to chuckle.

“Ugh…!”

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