Madam Tang Li entered the cell with Kallen welcoming her in. The emotions she had been building up along the way finally fell into complete disarray.
Was this imprisonment?
Did this look anything like imprisonment at all?
At heart, Old Madam was still an "outsider." Even though she had married an Order Follower, even though she had given birth to three Order Clerics, she remained an outsider;
even on the day Kallen ordered the Garrison Knights to charge into the headquarters building, when Old Madam had come to watch from a distance out of concern for her grandson, all she had actually prepared to do was rush in and protect Kallen as he left Vien if things fell apart.
Her way of thinking still followed the same principles as her youthful travels and adventures. Even after decades as a devoted wife and mother, after making soup countless times with her own hands, she had never forgotten how to hold a blade. She also believed a blade could solve ninety-nine percent of the world's problems, and for whatever remained unsolved, the fault still lay in her blade not being sharp enough.
Throughout the Guman Family, setting aside Richard and Eisen, who were partially involved themselves, the only person who truly knew Kallen would not suffer much in his current imprisonment was Old Delong.
The speech she had prepared was now essentially useless. Old Madam was behaving like a performer who had stepped onstage and forgotten her lines.
Kallen took the initiative to chat with Old Madam about many things, warming up the atmosphere.
By the time Old Madam said goodbye to Kallen, left the cell, and returned upstairs, she actually felt as though she had come not to visit a prisoner, but to look around her grandson's new home.
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