Dane muttered with a perplexed look on his face, almost as if he felt that it was a shame.

“I had thought that you’d like my gift.”

“Sina is not some object that anyone can give as they please. I appreciate you for holding her back from stupidly crawling into the Crack, but that’s all. Besides, she would have already heard about my situation if she had heard about the rumors that are going around. I bet you were just keeping her clueless on purpose—try and deny it, I dare you.”

Dane laughed out loud upon hearing Juan’s words.

“I just can’t fool you, can I? You’re right. I told her to stay here in the Magic Tower for a while, since I would have found you soon. But I did tell her that she was free to leave at any time she wanted. So, I guess it’s really not fair of me to call her my ‘gift’ to you. But that’s not the only gift I have prepared for you.”

Dane pushed away, causing Sina’s room to disappear. Then he scooped out something that was burning brightly from a deeper part of the dark, cold void. Dane used his staff almost as if he was fishing, and fished the object out from the void.

Juan could feel the cold air around them disappearing in just an instant as soon as the item appeared before them—it was a burning sword.

“It’s Sutra,” Juan muttered.

Sutra was one of the two weapons that Juan owned and used when he had...