Chapter 468: The Grave Beneath the Shrine
For a moment, neither of them spoke.
Orion and Sophia simply stared at each other.
Then slowly, almost at the same time, they turned back to Eldric.
Orion let out a short, disbelieving breath.
"…Are you playing some kind of joke on us?"
Eldric looked genuinely taken aback. His brows pulled together.
"A joke?" he repeated quietly.
He shook his head once.
"Why would I joke about something like this?"
His voice was calm, but there was a faint edge beneath it.
"This is not something I would ever make light of."
The room fell into silence again.
Sophia's fingers tightened together in her lap.
She felt like the floor beneath her had shifted without warning.
"I'm confused," she said quietly.
"If the beast we met really was who you say he was… if he was really Dolion…" her voice wavered slightly before she steadied it, "…then how was he still alive until now?"
Her eyes lifted to Orion for half a second.
"Until Orion killed him."
