 Raven: Ha, uh, ugh... cough, cough!- How long did he just cough as if his lungs are about to give out. He noticed he was sitting on mossy ground.
- Unidentified spores that looked like green dust or moss covered the ground, and collapsed upon touch.
- Raven: (It doesn't look like the ffoor or his dormitory.)
- Suddenly, Raven remembered that the moment of his arrest was already a past long gone.
- Raven: (Then where am I? And this voice?)
- When he jerked his head up, his eyes met with a pair of large eyes.
- Raven: Ugh?!
- Raven instinctively backed down and raised his sword to defend himself, but there was no attack.
- He glanced up in suspicion. What he saw were not eyes, but a large flower.
- The enormous flower had red petals that resembled rotting animal skin, and the abnormally large stamens looked like beads.
- In this brutal environment where though stems and spores were tangled with machine, the flower looked oddly alive. Even knowing that he was looking at a flower, Raven thought it was glaring at him.
- The dancing green spores that floated around the stuffy dark space landed on the blade.
- Raven: (Was this the cause of the stuffy air?)
- Raven sheathed his blade.
- Raven: (Why am I here?)
- Raven parsed through his faint memory. I am Raven Cronwell, the leader of a mercenary troop. And... the one who lost everything.
- He received fatal wounds when he was running away... and felt his inevitable death. But for some reason, he was still alive.
- After he was reconstructed by a machine called the king of Nasods, he was under orders to...
- Raven: (... ravage... the villages. It's sickening.)
- Raven: (And just now... Was it reading my memories? I didn't notice at all. Even though I heard them so clearly...)
- Raven: (Not only do you control my body, but do you plan on playing with my mind as well?)
- Raven: It's just bad taste. I can't stay here. I need to get out of here.
- As he was about to leave, Raven hesitated and stopped.
- Raven: (Once I leave... What can I do?)
- This was going to be a temporary freedom. He already escaped King Nasod's clutches before, tough not exactly like how he did now.
- Raven: (And every attempt failed.)
- Even if he manages to escape, there was no where left for him to go. His lover, friends, allies, family...
- His family... It was one of the first things he lost in his life.
- He was no longer a child by the time he was adopted by Sir Cronwell, so he didn't even dare to consider him his family... But perhaps he was being selfish.
- What happened to Sir Cronwell...
- Knowing he would have faced trouble because of him made him remorseful.
- Raven persuaded himself that as a noble, and a hero of the Kingdom, Sir Cronwell would be in a better situation than him.
- But that didn't mean he could go back.
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