Chapter 76

Chapter 76

"A map. I need to buy a map."

It's a bookstore, so they should have maps of the Empire, too.

As I was looking around, someone grabbed my shoulder.

"Hey, what do you think you're doing here?!"

"Young Master Aidan?"

It was a familiar sight.

Just like the day Dad disappeared. The same way he'd frantically searched for me.

Sweat beaded on his forehead, his breath short and ragged, as he pulled me into an embrace.

"I told you to wait right there! I thought something had happened to you!"

But unlike back then, his expression was desperate.

It wasn't the look of someone annoyed at having to find me. It was frantic and sorrowful.

He looked so desperate that I couldn't bring myself to say I wasn't a child and there was nothing to worry about.

"...I'm sorry."

I had no choice but to apologize.

"If you're…