The Thing Called Shame

Perhaps it was the price of using an excessive Divine Art like Proclaim Sanctuary with a body that had not even a rat’s-tail’s worth of faith.

Apparently, immediately after Gaon’s soldiers arrived to find us, I lost consciousness again.

“I’m tired….”

Anyway, when I came to, apparently two days had already passed….

“You look like you’re in pretty bad shape.”

“I feel like I’m going to throw up….”

After taking a sip of water that Lucy spoon-fed me,

I propped my body, which felt as though it might collapse at any moment, against the edge of the bed.

“So, what happened?”

I asked Huey, who had been quietly watching me for a while...