"Ah, Sun City! The most glorious holy land in the boundless sea of sand, where the scorching sun of Sangha gathers, where the Sun Worm was born, and where the most blazing light of punishment nearly burned me to death twice. I'm back, damn it!"
At the border between desert and ocean, Triss stood on the back of a giant sea turtle and gazed at the glittering desert city on the horizon. She shouted, making the black veil she wore flutter in the wind.
After reliving the thrill of being hunted by the entire empire, Triss was clearly delighted. Murphy and Adele behind her, however, didn't share her excitement.
Murphy was worried because two days had passed, and the Origin Vanguard still hadn't reached him. Something must have gone wrong with the sun ship along the way.
The vampire lord felt deeply insecure with his "cheat" taking so long to arrive.
Adele's worry was that she wasn't an unconventional Scarlet Witch like Triss, nor had she inherited all of Lord Murphy's resistance to sunlight. Just looking at the city shimmering with sunlight made her feel uncomfortable all over.
And when she thought about how she'd have to sneak inside, the Shadow intelligence officer felt even more pressure.
If things went wrong, she'd turn to ash beneath the blazing sun.
But thinking it over, perhaps that wouldn't be such a tragic end. If she died during an operation like this, surely Lord Murphy would remember her for the rest of his life, right?
"Hey! What are you thinking about that's so disrespectful?"
Before Adele could finish thinking, Murphy flicked her forehead. E-sis squealed and clutched her head. Clearly, Murphy didn't need to read her mind to guess from her strangely shifting expression that she was thinking about something dangerous.
"Thanks, big