Chapter 368 — Knowing Every Step (2)
“Whew.”
The coffin was something the Lord had asked them to deliver, while the unrecovered corpse was one they had discovered on the way here aboard the Vermilion Bird.
“…If it’s a heart fragment, do I just take out the heart?”
But even here, a minor problem arose.
Surely he wasn’t supposed to offer an entire human corpse.
Most likely, he had to find whatever counted as a fragment of the dragon’s heart, separate it, and return it.
The problem was that he had no idea where that damned dragon-heart fragment was located inside the body.
Or maybe…
Since it was a fragment of the dragon’s “heart,” should he simply cut out the heart itself?
But could it really be that simple?
“If I try it and I’m wrong, then I’m just desecrating a corpse for no reason…….”
He agonized for quite some time before deciding to open the coffin first.
As he remembered it, there had already been a separated fragment inside.
Clunk.
“…Sir, honestly.”
But when he opened the coffin, he found a corpse tightly wrapped in cloth with flowers delicately arranged around it.
In a cold region like this, flowers were probably harder to find than fish, yet somehow they had still managed to get them.
“…….”
But that sort of tenderness was practically the Adventurer’s trademark.
Deathbringer pressed his lips together as though he…