A glimmer of hope

Solomon looked at the dejected expression of the man sitting across from him. He had seen Eiro angry a few times, but usually, he had a pretty stoic demeanor. When they were alone, he would seem mostly emotionless, at most smiling when speaking about his kids or the plans he had for the future, and while he was outside presenting as 'Eiro Jura Daemonherz', the academy's lecturer, he would generally just smile the whole time to seem more approachable.

However, this was something that Solomon hadn't seen in Eiro. It was a sort of hopelessness that Solomon himself knew incredibly well.