The familiar name instinctively conjured images in Xia Nan's mind.
——Two frail boys, hiding behind their mother, wide-eyed, staring dumbfoundedly at him.
It was back when he had just crossed over, just completed his first mission, on the way back.
Seeing the two looking malnourished and skeletal, he had given them a few extra pieces of jerky.
However, the children's mother seemed not to like them having too much contact with him, an adventurer, and her submissive attitude hinted at some distance, so he didn't linger.
As time went on and various matters piled up before him, he gradually left this small incident on his adventure behind him.
Only now, reminded by Adeline, did he recall it.
"I remember the two lived outside the town with their mother, how come..."
"They're dead," Adeline replied.
The image appeared in his mind of a simple woman in her thirties, with blonde hair and blue eyes, a plain braided hairstyle, and a patched apron, shielding her two children behind her.
