Drip! Drip! Drip!
From the corner of the basement prison, a puddle of water was forming on the floor. Water leaked from the rusty pipe in the ceiling.
Dangling from rusty chains, Julian hung like a person on a cross, his body badly bruised with a blood-stained chest.
The wound caused by the black root had closed up but was still surrounded by bloody scabs.
"Uh… Ah!"
In that moment, Julian jolted awake and looked around the dimly lit room, trying to make sense of his surroundings.
His gaze fell on a man sitting on a chair, sharpening a knife, and looking quite malicious.
"Julian Noah.
"After swimming away from Swording Port, you ended up becoming a pirate under the alias of Jason Leonhardt.
"You befriended a young man named Tobias Reiner, who also used an alias and is actually known as Kiernan Hunter.
