Sariye

Chapter 63: Sariye

[Ugh—my head—where am I?]

The middle-aged Red Beard man woke clutching his throbbing head and found himself in a dimly lit room. Three people sat in the three chairs before him.

Apart from the person on the left, whom he recognized, the other two were strangers. One wore a white cloak, while the other was wrapped from head to toe in black bandages, looking exceedingly mysterious.

"Woman! If you want to kill me, then kill me. Why lock me up? No matter what intelligence you want from me, I won't say a word!"

The middle-aged Red Beard man spoke to the only person he knew on the left, Executive Nami.

"I'm not the one interrogating you. These two lords are. Listen carefully—if you answer honestly, you might at least get an easier death," Nami threatened coldly.

She had no favorable impression of Red Beard. In the recent battle, he had been fond of using his companions as human shields. On top of that, he was a World Government agent, which made him even more repulsive.

If he had not still been worth interrogating, Nami probably would have killed him outright.

"Answer honestly? I'm an agent with professional training! What do you think I spent all these decades hiding my identity for?" Red Beard sneered.

However, he soon found himself unable to speak. The person seated to his right, wrapped in black bandages, slowly unfurled the wings on his back—

They were absolutely not the wings of an ordinary Skypiean. Red Beard recognized them almost at a glance. In the dimness, those pitch-black feathers gleamed with an ironlike luster. They were clearly the ones he had searched for all these years—

"Lunarians!"

Red Beard cried out, his emotions suddenly becoming incredibly complicated. His decades of waiting had not