Night fell quickly in Cadheus. Just an hour ago, the sun had still been high in the sky, but an hour later, it was already setting in the west, with the afterglow of sunset just beginning to bloom. The group finally found an inn where they could spend the night before the sun had completely gone down. It was near the inner-city walls, quiet enough that they would not be disturbed, and relatively clean as well.
The food provided by the inn was not particularly to their liking, but the group had been living on dry rations throughout their journey through the Demon Realm. Now that they finally had a proper meal, they naturally did not fuss over it too much. With nothing else to do after dinner, Hao Ren went up to the small inn's third-floor terrace to enjoy the evening breeze, only to find that Izax was already there.
The brawny man, ferocious wherever he went, seemed unusually troubled at that moment. He stood at the edge of the terrace with his arms folded, gazing at the distant cityscape as though lost in thought. Hao Ren came to stand beside him and looked out at Cadessa City beneath the setting sun. The last streaks of golden-red light slanted across the city, and as the sky dimmed, the houses and streets filled with otherworldly charm were coated in a metallic sheen. Izax murmured, almost to himself, "What a beautiful view."
It was difficult for others to guess what was on Izax's mind, but Hao Ren was a fairly sentimental human. At that moment, he could not help thinking of the young woman he had met that afternoon—the human soldier named Kevin. As he looked at the quiet, peaceful Cadessa City beneath the sunset, he tried to imagine what it