[This chapter includes intense and unsettling scenes involving violence and psychological horror. Reader discretion is advised.]
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"Hehehehheheheehheehheheheheheh…"
I looked around, searching for the source of the laughter and then I saw him.
A lean figure draped in a cloak that shadowed half his face, leaving only a smile visible, one that made my insides twist just from looking at it.
The body was shaped too strangely to tell whether it was male or female and even the voice echoing through the hall made it impossible to determine.
So, for convenience, I decided to refer to him as a he.
Definitely not because I was some anti-feminist but because that was the image he had carved into my mind during our first meeting, when he had taken the appearance of Razek.
"Oh, my dear Eidolon… you seem troubled." He chuckled mid-sentence. "You wish for me to save your child and eradicate this entire empire? Do you not think you are being a little greedy?"
