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Chapter 396
Chapter 396
Edin Molsen’s head throbbed from the smell of burning oil inside the lantern.
If this went on any longer, he might die—not from anything else, but from the sheer lack of fresh air.
Even without being tortured or beaten.
Damn it.
As he spat out a curse in his mind, the thought of his younger sibling suddenly stabbed through his head.
Raising his gaze, he saw the man sitting right in front of him with his legs crossed. A man with strikingly large eyes, the kind even other men might turn their heads to look at. It was Kraiss from the Mad Platoon—someone Edin knew well.
He had never imagined that this bastard had planted a watcher so close to him and his sibling. But there was no point in resentment now—nothing would change. Instead, he asked a pragmatic and realistic question.
“My sibling?”
“They're doing just fine. Their appetite is a bit small, but I suppose that’s the secret to maintaining that figure.”
The smooth way Kraiss spoke was infuriating.
“If you'd escaped right before the civil war broke out, none of this would have happened.”
At those words, Edin almost blurted out that he had wanted to do exactly that, but he held his tongue.
How was he supposed to avoid something he didn’t even know was coming?
That his father, the so-called King of the Borderlands, was planning and executing a rebellion? He had known, but he could never have spoken of it so carelessly.
No matter what anyone said, that man was still his father.
And the penalty for treason was a double execution by beheading.
Would he stand against his father, then?
Not a chance.
Edin knew the extent of his father’s power. He wasn’t the type to fight a losing battle.
All Edin Molsen had wanted was to take his sibling and hide away somewhere quiet.
The east, the north—anywhere would have been fine.
That was why he had endured, even as Enkrid beat him to a pulp.
He had even tried convincing his father that his sibling could seduce Enkrid.
Looking back now, it seemed his father had never really cared about him at all.
Not that he would have let me escape either.
“Just kill me.”
Edin said it plainly. These people were his father’s enemies. They wouldn’t keep him alive.
As a hostage? That was laughable.
His father?
Dean Molsen had long ceased to be a man. His coldness was on par with the eternal frost of the permafrost lands.
It wasn’t visible on the surface, but up close, it was clear—there was something inhuman about his father’s frigidity.
When did he become like that?
He didn’t know. It was beyond his ability to perceive. At some point, his father had changed.
“What do you mean, ‘kill you’?”
Kraiss shook his head from side to side, then clapped his thigh with a sharp slap before speaking.
“All right, how about this?”
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