Chapter 106: A Magical Kingdom
Gluttony stared at the woman in the mirror, poking at the grains of rice in her porridge.
She looked nothing like the woman he had fallen in love with. The air of confidence and mischief was nowhere to be seen. Instead, there appeared to be an adult, weary with the weight of the world on her shoulders.
Her hair, while still a light color, was now more white than pale blue, and it hung down to her waist. Strands were twisted together as if she hadn’t bothered to brush her hair in a while, but while it would have suited the Hattie from before, it didn’t suit this woman.
She was wearing a white long-sleeve shirt with dried blood on her right forearm. The sleeves covered half of her hands, with her thumb sticking through a hole in the cuff. Even her pants, a tight leather-looking pair, didn’t suit the Hattie he knew.
All around her, men stared at her hungrily as if she was their next meal. They seemed to be in a camp ground of some kind with trees all around them, but there was also a hard cover roof covering the area where Hattie was eating.
This was nothing short of a crime for his woman to even step foot inside a place like this, looking like that... and yet, she wasn’t complaining at all.
In fact, if Gluttony didn’t have the ability to see her through the mirror, he really would have continued to think that everything was perfect.
She found someone to heal the wounds she had gotten while under the care of Dante, and yet, new wounds had already replaced the old ones.
"Are you sure you are okay where you are?" asked Gluttony, gripping the frame of the mirror on both sides. He would give up everything to be there beside her, to be able to hold her again. Instead, he was stuck on this side of the mirror.