Chapter 430: Pride of Existence (2)
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“…….”
Barbatos slowly opened her eyes, allowing our eyes to naturally meet.
Barbatos half-closed her eyes as if she were still slightly sleepy. It would be impossible for someone to fully relieve their fatigue if they had to sleep while hanging from the ceiling. She must be exhausted and tired in more ways than one. Her voice sounded somewhat faint and distant.
“I dreamt of something nostalgic.”
“A dream, is it?”
“Yeah, that’s right. So it was around that time Zepar started growing out his beard…… He was always so foolishly serious.”
Barbatos chuckled quietly as if something amused her. I simply puffed on my pipe. I wasn’t sure how much of a difference there was between her laughter and the smoke I was exhaling.
We were in a solitary cell, enclosed on all sides by ashen walls. It was perpetually cool and gloomy, like a shadowed place always damp from rain. I never imagined a day would come when the two of us would be having a conversation in a place like this. Barbatos likely felt the same. She playfully rattled the chains around her wrists.