Chapter 610: Reunion [Part 2]

Chapter 610: Reunion [Part 2]



"No, no, we should have done everything in our power to find you. How are you here? Have you found your father?"

Northern looked around the dark room for a moment before answering her.

"This place belongs to me. It's sort of like a pseudo-world of my own. I will explain all of that later. But yes, I have met Father, and I'm about to take you to him."

Northern's eyes slowly drifted to the baby in the cradle.

Eisha followed his gaze, then moved closer to the cradle. She gently lifted the infant, wrapped in wooly white apparel, and brought her to Northern.

The child was wide awake, with red eyes and black hair curling on its head.

"Here's your sister... Silver."

The child seemed to chuckle as her name was called. Eisha slowly handed her to Northern, who received her with blank but subtly narrowed eyes.

A life was in his hands.

A newborn baby, an existence that had just fully come into being, was in his hands.

Northern didn't know why, but these were the thoughts that kept coming forth in his mind.

He stared into her eyes for a moment, the child's pure scarlet eyes reflecting in the depths of his blue ones.

His sister. The one he had given the name to.

Silver.

That living being was in his hands right now, he was looking at her right now, and yet... there was nothing.

It was difficult to explain, but he felt like he was holding any other child unrelated to him.

He could feel vividly the void in his heart; since the last time he'd noticed, it had grown even larger and more hollow.

He was looking at his own sister and couldn't feel anything. He wanted his heart to writhe in pain at the fact that he could not feel anything.

But it was all the same.

At the very least, he had mastered the art of releasing a pleasing and delightful smile.

His lips curled to reveal it. Unlike before, the smile seemed to be getting familiar with his face and was less ugly, now more normal.

Although Eisha could perceive a certain emptiness through it.

She didn't expect her son to be exactly as she had left him, so she didn't even complain.

In fact, she was glad he could at least still manage to smile.

"We have a lot to catch up on, don't we?"

the couple.

Thalen and Alystren were also like that, but they watched, their eyes carrying sympathetic sorrow for what was happening before them.

Everyone resonated with the scene one way or another. Everyone except Northern.

He had taken several steps apart and was watching with no feeling or ache in his chest. Because of this, Northern made sure to keep his mind on whatever was going on.

He was so empty that he felt if he should let his mind sway away from what was happening right now, not only would he be just empty, but also incapable of empathy and deprived of

morals.

And he was scared of what kind of person that Northern would be.

Of course, there was little he could do to save what was eventually bound to happen as long as Void and Chaos continued to live in him.

And perhaps soon, the void would eat so deep into his soul that dispositions like this would

not matter- he wouldn't even be that thoughtful.

Because emptiness had corroded his entire soul.

There was a price to his power after all. A price that Northern did not yet know how heavy it would be to bear.

After a while, the cohort made it to the harbor, where they boarded the private citadel ship.

Northern stood at the rim of the ship and watched as Arcadia sank into the ground.

Luckily for the city, the disaster of the rift had only affected the cathedral. The other

devastated place was the governor's house.

The shambles it was left in marked the city with a grotesque scar.

It was not just about the scenery but the loss of the governor itself had ushered a melancholy

air into the city.

One that Northern, as he watched, couldn't quite understand.

'Unless a governor was so loving, caring, and great, why would the people mourn him?'

He had always thought things like the death of governors don't usually bother a

constitutionally led people.

Seeing this made him see things differently and also made him realize how big of a disaster was coming in the future.

He looked into the sky as the ship flew away, then narrowed his eyes and gritted his teeth.

"Lieutenant Dante... you really thought hard and well before deceiving me, didn't you?"

Lieutenant Dante definitely wasn't thinking about friendship when he asked for that one wish. Northern had thought that he was, although there were suspicion but he wouldn't deny that he had ultimately believed that they could be friends. "Anyways, going to the academy really would be a good choice for now."