Chapter 464 Passion Blossoms Hotter in theCold Heart of Despair (1/2)
Chapter 464 Passion Blossoms Hotter in theCold Heart of Despair
Both Sunny and Effie stared at him in surprise After a while, the forhtreat position in Bastion, safe behind its walls? Have Sunny infected you with his madness?"
Kai frowned, then looked away After a while, he said:
"Yes, I do But… do you guys reht Castle Well, anyway, Aiko has a real talent for er One evening, we ended up talking about the Dark City"
A sad smile appeared on his face
"Both of you only lived in the outer settlees, of course Much more dire than ho paid tribute faced in the Castle But… but life wasn't that bright there, too"
He remained silent for a bit, then continued:
"Aiko had it orse than I, though Especially after one of the Pathfindershell… Andel, whose head Lady Nephis eventually took off his shoulders We all knew it, but no one really helped"
A heavy sigh escaped from Kai's lips
ReadNovelFullainst one of the Pathfinders? But there was a lot of these compromises, of little lies we told ourselves as we closed our eyes to every dark, dirty thing that went on around us"
He looked at Effie, and said:
"People were starving in the outer settlement while we had our bellies full? Well, it wasn't our fault, because the Castle couldn't feed everyone Surely, if there was more food, ould have shared The Guards decided to harass someone? Well, that wasn't our fault either, because Tessai was too powerful, and ere too weak to resist him And so on, endlessly Everyone went as far as they needed to keep thinking of therew silent, then said quietly:
"But, you see, it actually was our fault All of us have committed the same crime… ere all weak When I spoke to Aiko, I finally realized that in this world, being weak is a sin, too At least for us, the Awakened So… yes, I want to challenge the Second Night safe and sound behind the walls of the Bastion Because I never want to close ain"
He looked at them, then sh time for me to prepare Plus, don't you need so to siain and just hope to hed
Kai had a point…
"Well… if you put it like this…"
After Kai's unexpected and poignant confession, they spent so their food, and chatting about this and that Kai shared his experience of winning twelve consecutive weeks of the Avatar Singer and having to lose on purpose in the end, and the furor his face reveal and the subsequent announce co the fans
…He also co to hire a second publicist because of a strange scandal he had gotten so Sunny to look away in shahtly shut
Effie s she had eaten and all the sorts of beer she had drunk, as well as what types of Nightmare Creatures she had hunted… and fried, and ate She also joked about all the propaganda events the government wanted her to participate in, and the various hich she had ea house, and how itabout his beautiful arh, and about his new, expensive, shi+ny refrigerator
Finally, Kai had to return to his schedule Before they parted, though, he hesitated, then took out two colorful pieces of synthetic paper from his pocket with a very e anything, he handed the brochures to Sunny and Effie
Sunny took one, and stared at it with a confused expression