Chapter 368: If It’s Tangled, Just Cut It (6)
Joyray had a mountain of questions he wanted to ask if he ever saw Keter again—things like whether everything outside had been resolved safely, or why he had returned to Liqueur and come looking for him. However, when he actually faced Keter, those questions no longer felt necessary. Keter had not changed, not on the outside or the inside.
Joyray knew this didn’t mean that nothing had happened. To him, he could clearly see Keter desperately trying to hold on to who he was.
“You’ve been through a lot.”
Joyray gently patted Keter’s shoulder. As the adult and his mentor, it was the first thing he felt he should do.
“Since when did you start acting like this?”
Keter awkwardly pushed Joyray’s hand away. Seeing that, Joyray smiled faintly.
“So you do change after all. The old you would’ve punched me for being creepy.”
“Haven’t I always said? I’m a kind person by nature.”
“That’s not something a man who burns someone’s bare flesh with fire should say.”