Seeing Firona and Erigat about to start arguing, Weimeng hurriedly stepped in as peacemaker, just as he had before.
"Hey, talk things out properly. Why are you getting so heated when your injuries haven't even fully healed yet?"
After hearing this, Firona and Erigat each turned their heads away with dark expressions, falling silent and saying no more.
However, although Weimeng said that aloud, he understood perfectly well why his two companions had suddenly flared up.
After all, the matter of Ye Chen had been bottled up in everyone's hearts for far too long.
They had all deliberately or unconsciously avoided this cruel subject before, so now that they had no choice but to face it, their long-suppressed emotions were naturally prone to spiraling out of control.
Weimeng understood that completely.
Then, he turned to look at Xiya, who was sitting beside him.
"Xiya, what do you think?"
Xiya looked at the floor and gently shook her head, her expression filled with helplessness and sorrow.
"Sorry. I don't know... I really don't know..."
As Weimeng watched Xiya's grief-stricken face, a wave of sorrow rose in his own heart as well.
"It's fine, don't force yourself. I was only asking casually."
After offering a simple word of comfort, Weimeng finally swept his dim gaze toward the person in the farthest corner of the room.
"Oko."
Weimeng asked cautiously.
"What do you think?"
As soon as Weimeng voiced that question, Xiya, Firona, and Erigat all turned to Oko, quietly awaiting her answer.
At this point, if one had to ask whose heart had suffered the greatest blow from Ye Chen's fate within the Dawn Squad, then that person would undoubtedly be Oko.
After all, to Weimeng and the others, the one whose whereabouts were currently unknown was their "comrade," their "captain," their