Chapter 1400: Retribution?
Left to Northern, he didn’t want to do any of this. The only person that could make him commit to what he’d rather not do without question was Eisha herself.
And Northern was here now, facing Raven and trying to tell her that Shin was her adopted father, not this man. But he wasn’t in the place to say it. Not yet.
So he turned to the Patriarch instead and walked towards him.
He stood in front of the man. For the first time, the grin on the Patriarch’s face had died, and he was looking up at Northern with an expression carved from stone. Still, hard, and emptied of all that performative amusement.
Northern looked down at him and scoffed.
"I presume you’re suddenly growing tired of seeing, uhn."
The Patriarch slowly lowered his eyes and said nothing.
Raven watched this happen, and something shifted behind her gaze. It wasn’t that Northern was strong enough to tame the man. She’d known that much already.
It was that the Patriarch could be tamed at all. That underneath the presence and the control and the weight of him, there was just a man, sitting on stone, lowering his head because someone stronger told him to.
Northern gripped the man’s hair and hauled him to his feet. The Patriarch rose unsteadily, and Northern kicked him forward from behind.
He staggered towards Raven.
She flinched. It was not a small flinch. She took a full leap away from the man, her body moving before her mind could catch up.