For one, her own people had sold her out.
They had decided to give up a not-very-important royal they could afford to lose as a slave, and in the end, they chose her.
That already raised the question of whether returning to such a family, who didn't see her as valuable, was something worth considering at all.
And secondly, the Eternal Warlock of War could still very much be alive. If she returned to her people, she would undoubtedly land back in his grasp.
Now, she needed to become strong enough to defeat him, if she ever wanted to return home. But returning home was another question entirely.
Was it even worth it?
"That's... that's quite the situation," Ryuk mused under his breath, and Aster nodded.
"True. I don't know if I even want to return to my race. They sold me out, knowing I was of little value in the first place. And there's still that Eternal Warlock of War."
