Things had changed so fast they could hardly take it in!
Led by Wyper, the Shandia warriors sat in silence, watching Loa with conflicted eyes. They had never imagined that the great demon who would destroy the world was someone like this. The man they had been so determined to kill had actually come to save Shandia's Angel.
How could they accept such a sudden reversal right away?
Besides, they needed to hear the answer from him. After all, the woman over there had said it herself: everything she had told them was only her guess.
"Understood." Feeling his companions' eyes on him, Wyper rose shakily and walked toward Loa.
"Oh? Want some soup?"
Loa shot Robin a helpless glance, then handed Wyper the bowl.
"Huh? Yes. Pardon me!"
Wyper froze for a moment, then took the bowl and slowly began to drink.
Silence settled over them. Robin chose that moment to speak. "Sorry, Lord Loa. I was worried something might happen to the ruins, so I told them the truth first."
"Heh."
Loa rolled his eyes and ignored her. What was done was done. What good would blaming her do?
Still...
Loa turned to Wyper beside him and said quietly, "Ask whatever you want while I'm in a good mood."
"I..." Wyper had a thousand things he wanted to say, but now that the moment had come, he did not know where to begin. After a while, he set down the bowl and looked Loa in the eye.
"Are Noland's descendants really still looking for us?"
Of all the questions pressing on him, that was the one Wyper most desperately wanted answered. Their four-hundred-year war was not only about the Skypieans taking their Holy Land. It was also about a regret that had endured for four centuries.
The great