Chapter 749 - Small Home

The men and women of this town had all been prepared to die. The threat they faced was too great and they were simply too weak.

They knew that they should be happy simply for the sake of surviving, they should be grateful, thanking their lucky stars that they could see another day. However, how could pain be washed away by logic?

"General?"

The blue eyed youth always stood silently by Leonel's side. Seeing him blankly staring at the pain and grief before him, he couldn't help but check up on him.

"Hm?" Leonel absentmindedly responded, his gaze never shifting.

There was a little girl over there, no more than seven years old, clutching the blood stained scabbard her father had left home with.

Not far from her, there was a woman. She had a young and youthful face. Though she wasn't extraordinarily beautiful, she was very pretty, maybe even the prettiest within this small, malnourished town.

Yet, tears streamed down her face endlessly, her sobs echoing as she grasped onto a necklace that hung from her neck with both hands.

With every quiver her body made in her fit of sorrow, her dress shifted in the wind, making the baby bump she sported all the more obvious.

On another side, there was an elderly couple. The old woman with deep grey hair trembled in her husband's arms, her tears getting lost in the folds of her wrinkles.

were already murky with age, but they clutched their son's leather armor between the

tear not a single quiver. It was all seared into his mind and stored in a place he would

eyed youth sighed

they experienced would have been far worse if

Leonel didn't respond.

just hours ago, he didn't even spare the lives

seemed to tell him one

skies, but he knew that even if he did, he wouldn't be

tight grip on his wrist. He looked down to find that his

I can't let you wallow away in another bar all night after saving

eyed youth

a smile and allowed himself to be pulled along. He didn't know what he should be doing in this world, but he knew that wallowing in

continued, "Our esteemed General can't be the only one without a proper home to be greeted by, right? How embarrassing

youth's laughter seemed to want to fill Leonel's soul

two entered the town, traveling

and the poverty. It seemed that whether they camped out at the town's entrance or not, the living conditions of these

was almost like a heaven, unblemished by the trash of this world. He couldn't help but wonder just what

eyed youth led Leonel to a modest little home of stone and

managed to secure it with our military salary. That sum you lent me? This is what it

two entered the small home, only to hear a

"Rollan!"

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