Chapter 87: Heartbreak
“You said it was about my father?”
At the sudden statement from Alastor, the Commander of the North, I tilted my head in confusion for a moment, then feigned ignorance and asked him back.
“It’s about your father, who has been on a top-secret mission for a year under the Emperor’s orders.”
“Hm...”
“Do you know where he is?”
From the way he spoke, for some reason, it seemed like he had quite a bit of information about my father’s whereabouts.
“My father is... in a good place right now.”
“Hmm, I wouldn’t exactly call it a good place.”
“Then are you saying you know where he is?”
Still wary, I repeated the excuse I once used with Cecil, and fired the question right back at Alastor.
“My homeland. The Cursed Domain. The Frozen Lands.”
“...What?”