Chapter 194 - Volume 2
Chapter 139 – Warm words of hope (1)
There was a dark figure on the second floor of the hall. When Brendel focused his eyes, he found it was a gigantic skeleton covered in a weathered set of brass armor of an ancient design and wielded a battle-axe. The top of the skull had a horizontal crevice, as though someone had tried to cut across its forehead with a sword when it was still alive. Its jaw was slightly unhinged and it looked like it was looking at the scene below with a mocking smile.
[…… That’s Kabias!] Brendel identified what the dark figure was at once.
“Viscount Gaston, is it?” Kabias’s voice was dry like sandpaper, “How have you been after you left Fortress Riedon?”
It had seen this young man from afar when the undead surrounded the fortress. That youth had caught its eye for some unknown reason.
“Madara.” Brendel said through clenched teeth. He turned around and glared at Graudin: “When did the Madara became so close to Aouine’s nobles?”
“All life turns into dust with time. The only thing that does not change is profit, Viscount.” Kabias said.
[Graudin has actually colluded with the Madara undead, but for what purpose? It seems like I’m free to kill Graudin at this distance, but……]