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CHAPTER 162
For a long heartbeat the tower answered only with the hiss of rain and the slow drip from the fractured ceiling. Lyn's body sagged against the polished floor, a dark stain bleeding outward where her temple had met stone. Her visor lay crooked, a thin smear of rainwater catching the light like a small, stunned moon.Jeffery didn't look at her for more than a second. He felt the shape of the moment more than saw it—the weight of what he'd done settling into him with the cold clarity of a verdict. The sound of his own breath sounded foreign in the sterile corridor, louder than thunder.He crouched, not in mercy but because it was the motion his body knew—check pulse, check airway. Her breath came in shallow, ragged pulls. She wasn't dead. Not yet. That knowledge scraped at him like a blade."Sorry," he whispered, and the word left him small and useless.The Philosopher's Stone in his pocket thrummed, a bird trapped beneath cloth. It sent a warmth through his palm that was more like memor
CHAPTER 161
The rain hadn't stopped—it only changed shape. In the eastern district, it fell ooke mist, thin and quiet, the kind that soaked into the bones without sound. The streets glistened beneath the crimson reflection of the tower ahead—a structure of glass and steel that clawed at the night sky, its upper windows glowing like the eyes of something alive.So this is the place...Jeffery thought within himself as he looked ahead. As usual his face was expressionless, but his heart was heavy with the feeling of revenge.He stood beneath a collapsed canopy across the street, watching. His breath fogged faintly in the chill air. The coat clung to his shoulders, weighed down by water and time. The Philosopher's Stone in his pocket continued to hum gently. But it didn't produce any reaction whatsoever.Jeffery didn't pay attention to the stone. It was always like this. It only came alive when it wanted to imbue him with more knowledge about the universe.His attention went back to the tower, That's
CHAPTER 160
The city was still miles away, but its glow already burned faintly across the horizon—an amber haze pulsing like a dying heart through the curtains of rain. Between Jeffery and that light stretched a long road, slick with water and shadow, lined with trees stripped bare by the wind.He walked it without a word. He was all by himself after all. And if there had been someone else, he wouldn't have said anything to the person. Nothing at all.The night pressed around him, whispering through branches. Puddles swallowed his footsteps; mud clung to his boots. The rain no longer felt cold—his body had gone numb long ago. His breath came out in faint clouds, vanishing almost as soon as they formed.Every now and then, lightning tore through the clouds, revealing flashes of the world he trudged through.Every now and then, lightning tore through the clouds, revealing flashes of the world he trudged through.Jeffery's coat dragged behind him, its edges darkened by rain and soot. He had picked i
CHAPTER 159
The rain didn't fall anymore—it attacked. Each drop struck the earth like shrapnel, bouncing from the broken stone and splintered glass. The night sky was a bleeding bruise, purple and gray, trembling with thunder. Wind screamed through the fractured bones of the manor, carrying the faint scent of smoke, blood, and burnt ink. Jeffery stepped into it without hesitation. The downpour hit his face, cold and merciless, but he didn't wipe it away. He walked with slow, deliberate steps—boots crunching over gravel and shards, his coat dragging through the puddles like a wounded flag. His shadow followed him for a few seconds before vanishing beneath the veil of rain.Captain Daniel has caused me a lot of grief, Jeffery thought within himself. First he started it by burning my company. Then he went after Rita and the Stirling Enterprise...and then he killed them.By now it was already established within his heart who was the cause of everything. He no longer needed any detective to find out
CHAPTER 158
The storm did not stop. It only deepened, becoming heavier with every second that passed.Rain lashed against the broken glass like claws, streaking the marble floor with veins of silver. The flames that had once burned with fury were now reduced to embers, their faint orange glow trembling against the gusts that slipped through the shattered panes. The air was think with the scent of wet ash, of burned paper and blood drying on stone.Jeffery stood near the window, silent as a monument. The dim lightning carved him into fragments—jaw tight, shoulders squared, his reflection a mosaic of conflicting faces. Every crack in the glass split him into another version of himself: the soldier, the savior, the executioner. And behind him all, something deeper—something hollow.The weight of everything pressed in. The silence. The storm. The truth.He breathed out, the sound low and harsh in the cold air. "Do you hate me now?"The words came slow, almost reluctant, like a confession rather than
CHAPTER 157
The night pressed down on the manor like a suffocating shroud. Ash drifted lazily through the air, glowing faintly as the last embers of the courtyard fire died beneath the whispering wind. The moonlight was thin—silver and cold—pouring through broken windows and painting cracked marble floors with ghostly patterns.For a long, heavy moment, silence ruled. Rita stood stillz her face palez her eyes wide and uncertain. The orange flicker of the remaining fire danced in her pupils, making her expression unreadable—somewhere between disbelief and terror."You're... joking," she finally said after something time. "You have to be joking, Jeffery."Although Jeffery had told her about Captain Daniel some minutes ago, she couldn't believe it. She would have believed it but...it wasn't possible. It wasn't possible at all.They had already talked about it and Jeffery had thought she had taken in everything. But when silence came and she began thinking, she couldn't just place her mind on how a p
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