After Marina narrowly escaped death in the sewers, she had yet to recover.
When she woke up, the first thing she saw was a dirty ceiling. She wasn't kidnapped to be sold, but she was in a tavern in the Rat Path. The environment in the tavern wasn't good.
Moreover, when she opened her eyes, she didn't see anyone else but Iqbal, which made her feel more at ease.
Iqbal was a naive youth, but with someone like him by her side, she didn't need to worry about her safety.
After waking up, the first thing Marina did was to ask Lulunaka where she was, but she didn't get an answer. Iqbal only remained silent.
Although she knew that she was probably dead, Marina didn't give up. She went to find Short Axe and Chris who were drinking outside.
She didn't get the answer she wanted from the two of them. Instead, she got a more straightforward and cruel answer: Lulunaka was left in the sewers.
As for Lulunaka's life or death, the people who were present at the time didn't think that she could survive.
After that, Marina forgot how she left the Rat Path.
After separating from the two mercenaries, she and Iqbal left the Rat Path together and returned to the clean and quiet world outside. It was supposed to be like that, but the starry sky had turned blue. That night in the King's Castle, it couldn't be said to be peaceful.
After separating from the worried Iqbal, Marina returned to her room. It was a clean and simple tavern room in a remote area of the King's Castle. Outside, there was the cold sea breeze and the sound of the waves.
She could spend a small amount of money to stay in such a place for a period of time, making her pocket more comfortable.
That night, Marina didn't close her eyes.
Lulunaka's death put her in a bad mood. Then, the blue starry sky outside and the blue candlelight in the room that couldn't be extinguished made her feel very uncomfortable. Her body was very hot, and her blood vessels were filled with boiling water. Her skin was stinging, and if she touched it, it was no different from cutting her skin with a knife.
After returning, Marina didn't leave the tavern for a few days.
Iqbal came to visit her, and she dealt with him as usual. Iqbal didn't see any change in her and left happily every time.
But after he left, Marina returned to the way she had been the night she came back from the underground.
Marina had seen many people die, but Lulunaka's death shocked her greatly.
Lulunaka didn't die in front of her, but Lulunaka died because of her.
Short Axe had said that in the underground world, death could happen at any time, and Lulunaka, who had volunteered to go underground, should have been prepared for it.
Now that she thought about it, Marina realized that Lulunaka had indeed made up her mind. The ones who didn't take this matter seriously were Marina and Ike.
She thought that everything would be under her control. It was not difficult to protect a little girl like Lulunaka. In the end, Lulunaka died because of Marina, and she, Marina, was still alive.
This was definitely not what Marina wanted to see.
She still remembered that Lulunaka went to the sewers for her uncle, but when she got the glowing moss, she didn't live to return to the surface. Instead, she died in Marina's place.
Marina didn't want to die in the King's Castle, but when someone died because of her, and even died in her place, her heart became very chaotic. She didn't know what to do next.
She thought that she had to do something for Lulunaka, or she wouldn't be able to get over this knot in her heart. At least, she had to do something for Lulunaka's family.
But she didn't know where Lulunaka's family was. It was too difficult to find Lulunaka's family just by relying on her identity as a resident of the Rat Path.
She decided to use the power of arcane magic to find Lulunaka's traces in the King's Castle.
She didn't know if she was lucky or unlucky, but she had a piece of Lulunaka's clothes in her hand. It might have been torn off when she had the last contact with Lulunaka. That moment of separation became the distance between life and death.
It wasn't too difficult to use divination spells to track down a person. What was difficult was accurately finding that person, not a meaningless range.
Marina wasn't good at this kind of divination magic, but she felt that the blue sky made her surge with power that she didn't usually have. So she decided to try and find Lulunaka's family.
A few days later, she stood in front of Luna's alchemy cauldron.
This shop was also in a remote area of the King's Castle. If she didn't follow the traces left on the map by magic, she might not have the chance to come here before leaving the King's Castle.
This was a shop that no one would patronize. In such a remote place, it didn't look like there would be customers here.
Marina stood on the opposite side of the shop's entrance and looked at this side from afar.
This wasn't the rat path, but the magic brought her here. She didn't understand why it was here. This was very different from what Lulunaka said.
Marina, who had all kinds of thoughts in her heart, finally walked into the shop.
After she went in, she saw the shop's exhibition table and the goods on the display rack. They were all strange things, and she couldn't see their actual function and use.
Behind the goods, there was a middle-aged man with a big beard sitting behind the counter, drinking tea.
"It's so rare to have a customer here."
The middle-aged man Pasta saw that there was a customer here that he hadn't seen before. He turned his head towards Marina, "If there's anything that catches your eye, just ask me … Don't touch it, it might be dangerous."
Marina didn't come to buy alchemy products. Moreover, she couldn't see the purpose of these things.
"Do you know a girl called Lulunaka?"
Marina asked Pasta. She had asked this question many times in the past few days, so it wasn't difficult to say it again.
Pasta put down his teacup and stroked his beard, looking pensive. "Where did you hear the name Lulunaka?"
Seeing Pasta's reaction, Marina's almost extinguished hope suddenly rekindled. "She … She's my friend," Marina replied. "I want to find her family."
"Lulunaka's family?" Pasta looked at Marina, and the look in his eyes made Marina's hair stand on end.
If she wasn't mistaken, this person in front of her was Lulunaka's family. He might even be her uncle. However, Lulunaka was a resident of the rat path. She shouldn't be living on the surface. Moreover, didn't she say that her uncle was seriously injured?
While Marina was still thinking about this, Pasta shouted inside, "Lulunaka, your customer is here."
Marina's face was filled with disbelief when she saw Lulunaka appear in front of her.
"Hello, customer. Do I know you?" Lulunaka smiled at Marina.