"Holme! Is it really you?!"
The young man following Sir Weissenasche walked over to Holme carrying the infant girl.
Holme raised his head and looked up with his red and swollen eye to look at the man who called out to him. The moment he associated the man before him with the friend in his memories, he cried out in surprise, "Lionel!"
"Lionel… you… why are you dressed like that?"
Holme recognized the man standing before him was his old partner. They were both at the bottom tier of the Black Dove hierarchy. They would frequently move along Norland's underground city and the alleys.
"When I returned, I saw the Beauty Gutama being arrested by Norland's law enforcers. As for you and your younger sister, the two of you seemed to have disappeared from that world! But now, you're…"
