Chapter 496
For a moment, she paused at Ian's words.
"Truly," Diana murmured and raised her head.
She looked up at the sky, churning with dark clouds, with eyes that couldn't grasp reality, and then added, "Is it really... collapsed? Just like that, in a single moment?"
Ian didn't answer further. He simply sat cross-legged, as if exhausted, resting the head of the unconscious Lucia on his thigh. He, too, needed time to organize his thoughts. Everything had been just as sudden for him.
Of course, Diana was no longer paying attention to his answer.
"Haha... hahahaha...." Laughter spread from behind her mask.
The sound, like air escaping, soon turned into a roar of laughter. "Haha... Ahahahaha!"
Diana cackled as if she were literally about to die from breathlessness. Her head was thrown back, and she was staggering as if she would fall over.
It was enough to pull Ian from his thoughts.
It'd be a real shame if she went crazy now.
His brow furrowed slightly as he turned to look at Diana. She laughed on, heedless of his gaze. She even raised a hand and threw off her mask. The fairy's contorted face was revealed. Tears were even welling up in her eyes.
"Ahaha... To be this... this easy!" Laughing with a face that was impossible to tell whether it was smiling or crying, Diana placed a sand-covered cigarette in her mouth.