Ethan was the type of person who would get depressed for a long time after encountering a bad ending in a game.
He knew what kind of era he was living in, so for the past two years, he tried to keep his distance from the people around him.
In this era, partings and deaths were all too common. Someone you saw in the morning might be dead by the afternoon. For most people in the Empire, dying of old age was an unattainable luxury, and even nobles, not to mention the Knight Commander of the Empire, were not exempt.
The apartment fell into silence, and the few people there were so overwhelmed by the sudden heaviness of the atmosphere that they couldn't speak.
Ave originally thought that based on Ethan's personality, he might deliver some grandiose speech, like initiating a grand expedition after completing the research on magic technology or establishing a new empire. However, his response this time was so ordinary that she found herself momentarily unable to reply.
