Chapter 539: The Hope of Life

Western Reims, Meidion Village.

Paul Leono gently caressed his old house inch by inch as if touching a rare treasure, with tears rolling in his eyes, always swollen due to exposure to gas.

This was Leono's home, the home his father had left him, bearing the memories of his childhood. After losing it for five years, he had returned to this warm homeland.

The Crown Prince had chopped off Mr. Boka's head, which Leono had witnessed with his own eyes. That day, when he heard that the Tax Farmers were to be beheaded, he and his wife risked their family's starvation, putting down their work to watch at the Louvre Square.

The formerly haughty Boka was trembling with fear, entirely unlike when he had forcefully demanded money from them. At last, when the executioner lifted his hideous head, he and his wife shouted with the crowd until their throats were hoarse.