Chapter 58
"Wake up... wake up..."
The calling voice echoed beside Qin Xa's ear.
Hearing that familiar call, Qin Xa first realized that he had fallen asleep.
Ever since coming to Nuceria, he had never voluntarily gone to sleep, so he had not heard that voice that always appeared whenever he rested.
The call that inevitably sounded whenever he rested irritated Qin Xa. He abruptly opened his eyes and found only pitch-black darkness around him.
"Angron?"
"Oeno!"
"Are you there?!"
In the darkness, Qin Xa seemed at a loss, anxiously calling the others' names, just as the call from nowhere continued echoing by his ear.
Qin Xa feared the dark.
That had been common knowledge among the White Scars Space Marines who had raised him, which was why the strike Cruiser was always brightly lit.
Later, the Librarian had even used his psychic power to light an orb that would never go out, letting it accompany Qin Xa and drive away the darkness he feared.
Until the Grey Knights took Qin Xa away, and before performing his augmentation surgery, they snapped their fingers and dispelled the psychic light orb the Librarian had created.
But they did not know that Qin Xa did not fear darkness itself. What he feared was the emotion called loneliness—the abandonment that he, having grown up in the Welfare Institute, could not help but fear.
"Kleist!"
"Where are you?!"
Qin Xa called out again, feeling his way through the endless darkness.
The darkness here was so absolute that even his enhanced eyes could not see anything.
The ground beneath his feet did not feel like the rocky floor of a cave, but he could not tell what it was made of.
"I'm here!"
Suddenly, a large hand grabbed Qin Xa's arm.
"I'm here, Angron." The