Whooo-!
What filled the corridor was cold air.
Drip drip-! The sound of the palace collapsing from the aftermath of the fierce fight could be heard.
The silence was clear, but within it, a very small sound was echoing.
Drip.
At some point, that sound stopped.
Stillness had arrived.
Suddenly, all sounds ceased.
Even the raging cold air was no longer felt.
But I wasn’t flustered by this.
I just quietly looked at the woman held in my hand.
Black blood flowing steadily from her mouth.
Even her eyes showing whites, unconscious.
She clearly looked like she had already lost consciousness.
[How did you know.]
Yet she was speaking to me.
The peculiar thing was, it wasn’t the originally beautiful woman’s voice.
A thick man’s voice was coming through.
Hearing the voice, I grinned.
“Oh, yeah. Nice to meet you too.”
[…]
The guy falls silent for a moment at my greeting.
His expression is stiff, so I can’t properly grasp what he’s thinking.
But I didn’t mind it.
A few seconds pass.
[I will ask again.]
The guy asks me once more.
[Ninth pureblood.]
[I asked how you knew I was in the apostle’s body.]
‘Hmm.’
Hearing the words, I slightly furrowed my brows.
Already two pieces of information are in that short sentence.
Apostle.
Ninth pureblood.
I had to forcibly suppress the corners of my mouth that were trying to rise.
While doing so, I said to him.
“Apostle…. So this bitch is your apostle?”
[Haha-.]
The guy lets out a short laugh.
[You act as if you’re surprised when you already know, putting on a ridiculous performance.]
Oh, caught.
Yes.
As the guy said, I wasn’t particularly surprised.
Having experienced so many things while living, this wasn’t enough to surprise me.
Moreover.
It was something I had somewhat expected, so even more so.
‘I didn’t know about the apostle or the ninth thing, though.’
What I expected was solely that there was something inside Yuseon’s body.
I had noticed it was related to…