Chapter 426 – Have you ever seen a weapon having children?
"I am back, Cass," Isolde said as she took Cassius into her arms, hugging him tenderly, almost nervously, as though she herself couldn't quite believe that she was finally standing in front of him.
That finally, she was holding him the way she had imagined doing so all this time.
Cassius himself didn't respond to the hug. His mind seemed to lag embarrassingly behind, as though, at that instant, he had lost everything that made him Cassius Desdemona — the Angel, the Lightbringer, the man who had pulled off two Heists in a row and blown up the Church of the Lord of Death.
At that instant, he was none of those things.
Everything had been stripped away from him like ornaments being removed one after another, leaving behind nothing but bare flesh, nothing but the man underneath all those titles and accomplishments.
