Chapter 478 – Same Hunger
"And?" Sira said, a flicker of something sliding through her voice.
"She likes me," Lux said simply.
Sira didn't blink. "So?"
He shrugged. "I mean. It's a thing."
She turned toward him slightly. "Are you going to take her into your harem?"
Lux didn't answer right away.
He tapped his fingers on the wheel, eyes still on the road ahead. The traffic cleared as the Delmar tower rose in the distance—tall, modern, too polished for its own good.
"I don't know," he admitted. "She's interesting. Powerful. Elegant. Ambitious. The way she talks—it's calculated. Not fake. Like she understands the weight of words."
Sira frowned. "So… what's the problem?"
He hesitated.
Then—
"She smells like me."
"…What."
"Like Greed," he said. "The way she looks at people. The way she calculates presence and cost and value—it's familiar. Too familiar. She's a Greed-adjacent. If I'm money, she's legacy. If I'm power, she's territory. Same hunger. Different diet."
