Chapter 26: Ch 26 - Mysterious Helper
Kai slowly tilted his head backward.
His gaze drifted up toward the cloudy, dark sky as his mind seemed to have dozed off into a realm of its own.
"I did it..." He muttered under his breath and let out a long, deep sigh.
For the first time in a long while, despite having won against a perilous situation of life and death, Kai couldn’t feel even an ounce of happiness.
It was neither because he had killed humans for the first time, nor due to such pitiful condition of his body... No, it was because he was disappointed.
Disappointed in someone.
Disappointed in himself.
Even if it was true that he had surpassed walls that were nowhere near his level, he just couldn’t forget about the part where his mindset had been shaken... Broken that easily...
The smile that spread wide across his face mere moments ago, had long since dissipated.
He stood on the blood-stained earth, right next to the corpse of who—even if for a few moments—was his comrade that he eventually killed himself.
Kai’s grip over his spear slowly slipped away as his hand fell back to his side—finally allowed to rest.
"Come to think of it," he tilted his head downwards and slightly raised his right hand, looking at his palms with a stern gaze while he continuously clenched it into a fist and opened it up.