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Octavius gestured with his shoulders.

"I already said, even though he didn't have much appreciation for me, he would do the same. So I will gather some of my armies, whether or not they want to fight against the creatures of that dark territory, and we will enter the Purgatory. I will only return from there when we are all dead, or when I find him.

And I admired him deeply for that. It has to be a man, in every sense of the word, to give up riVraxities and wars of ego, to risk one's own life in search of the other. I could have said that I loved him for that kind of attitude, for leaving, even for a second, the pride aside to try to save someone else's life. However, I limited myself to approaching and hugging him.

"Thank you, Octavius," I murmured against your chest. "Thank you for always, from my first years of life, dedicating yourself to making my days better.

The sin of pride did not respond, he just squeezed his arms around me, with Vraxlon's sword cutting the air to position hi