A soft song drifted through the temple.
“Isn’t this a hymn…?”
“I’m a follower of the Moon Church, so I hear them occasionally. It really is similar.”
The Sun Church priests looked somewhat displeased.
“…Strictly speaking, it does conform to the structure of a hymn….”
“No matter how similar it is to Earth’s music, we cannot call something from another dimension the same.”
“I don’t know what sort of clue this may provide, but I dislike it.”
A hymn was music meant to praise a god and nurture faith. Worse, this place had been revealed as a former Temple of the Sun, yet a bizarre hymn now flowed through it. It was blasphemy itself—insulting the Sun and praising something wicked.
The faint singing echoed throughout the temple. Slight discord made it uncanny, while the gentle melody felt languid as a summer twilight. It resembled an animal’s cry and could not be understood.
It undulated like the call of a whale spreading through seawater.
“…….”
“…In any case.”
Even within that strange atmosphere, the Hunters turned to their work.
“Our most important task is identifying the heart, correct?”
“Yes. The Monster itself is often the heart… but there are nearly as many cases in which the heart exists separately.”
“Securing the abducted Hunter Seo Gio and Novice Priest Cha Yisol is also important. Both are exceptional talents. We cannot allow them to die this way.”
“It seems we will have to look around.”
Kang Seodam held up a small, round jewel.
“This Resonance Stone will tell us Novice Priest Cha Yisol’s location.”
The Resonance Stone, which Iruda had supposedly divided with her partner…