Chapter 646: Side Story 2. Dance of Flame and Shadow - 5
"You were sent here because of other people, and you were sent to the afterlife because of other people too..." Agni sent a puff of smoke into the empty space in front of him and watched the grey haze melt into the murky air. "Shouldn’t you at least think about your family first before those strangers, Cap?"
Ah, guessed he was the Captain now.
But then again, Nolan did think about his family...however inadequate it was. At least, he had some savings that should go to his family when he was sent to the Borderland and sent the meager salary he got here to his wife’s account.
And then there was that conversation too.
’Hey, unlike me, you don’t have to stay here forever,’ the man had opened the conversation with an uncomfortable preamble--at least for Agni.
Naturally, he quipped back with suspicion. ’What the hell is this? You’re going to ask me to do something annoying, aren’t you?’
And the man continued without care. ’You know I have a son, right?’
’No.’
Nolan had laughed at Agni’s annoyed tone. But after working together for more than five years, it wasn’t a hard thing to realize that the berserker didn’t mean most of his reaction.
’I’m not going to ask you to take care of him or anything, just...’ the man had a bitter, regretful look on his face. The face he often made after getting banished to this borderland without any opportunity to see his family. ’Make sure he’s not doing foolish things like his Dad.’
’I don’t know...’ Agni grumbled. ’What if it’s genetics?’