Bab 56: Into Harm's Way

Skullius opened his eyes and saw the figures of four people above him, their hands outstretched over his chest. They were releasing bursts of mana into his body steadily.

'Ah... I was right...' he thought.

Two of the figures looked particularly unhappy, but Skullius felt even more so despite escaping a tragic end once again.

He couldn't bring himself to be cheery when all that happened within the place that he had been taken to by Somanda kept brushing against his mind in an unsettling way.

Something kept blaring against a memory that he was sure he could almost taste. The outline of a figure that was identical to the girl he had seen within the block of ice kept flashing before him incessantly.

'Who is this...? Why does an emotion that I haven't felt before try and squeeze through my bones whenever I focus on it?! Damn it!'