Alsikl opened and closed his beak in disbelief.

"L-Lies! There’s no way! Your parents wouldn’t have married for something so… so ordinary, like falling in love!"

"The head of the family told me himself. It’s true," Lee Han replied casually, as if it were the most uninteresting fact in the world.

He had heard the story enough times to be utterly fed up with it. Whenever the head of the family talked to him, unsolicited love stories always managed to slip in.

"Could love actually make magic stronger? I always thought love was just an annoying distraction for mages…"

"You …