Chapter 81

Kazen and the Duke were, without question, connected by something an ordinary person couldn't sense.

"How far away can you feel it, Your Grace?"

"If I'm simply physically distant from Kazen……. I can sense his condition even from my own residence. I've never been farther than that, so I couldn't say for certain."

"Even when you were in the imperial capital?"

"Even within the capital, keeping track of Kazen's condition wasn't difficult."

"I see. The sensing range is wider than I expected."

……And the more I heard the Duke talk about it, the more I could tell that connection really was a wonderful thing.

"Can you communicate with each other, too?"

"I can. For example……."

The Duke lifted his head and looked at Kazen. Kazen, apparently bored with the current conversation, was yawning lazily while stretching his wings out and folding them back in, over and over.

"He says he…