章 355: Volume V - Chapter 73: Awareness of Weakness

The first thing I felt when I saw the one-eyed creature was... fear. Just like... like I've felt throughout this whole dungeon. An unfathomable fear that kept growing and growing inside me.

And yet, hope hadn't gone out of me. Because I... I wanted to live. No matter how bad it was, no matter how impossible it seemed that we could survive... I wanted to live.

I wanted to see Paul, I wanted to see Aiden. To be separated from them like this... wasn't that... unfair?

Although... life had never been fair. I had experienced it myself, more than once.

Still, I believed I would survive. The reason was simple... It was Adrian. The words he said over and over from day one.

Trust me.

And I did.

That trust was reaffirmed many times as he managed to kill one creature after another, somehow managing to keep us alive.

So, even though we faced a creature as powerful as ever, even though I was trembling with fear, I continued to trust him.