“That woman... she seemed younger, more innocent-looking, but... She kinda looks like you."
Butcher’s words hung in the air, and Lady Eira’s eyes softened.
She immediately wiped away a tear before it could fall.
'He... He... Hera...' Lady Eira's thoughts were looking for clues, 'Herald...?'
Lady Eira’s hand trembled, her fingers hovering just inches from Butcher’s battered face. Tears traced silent paths down her cheeks as she struggled to piece together the fragments of a memory, an impossible recognition.
"Are you..." She whispered, as if questioning his very soul, "Are you Herald—”
SMACKKK!!!
A flash of motion cut her off. Gideon-san, our tooth-sized general, fully recovered and seething with fury, launched himself forward.
His knee crashed into Butcher’s neck with a force that resounded through the barn like a thunderclap.