The Grudge, the Consensus

For some reason, I always felt that something was off.

I looked at Time Houn. "Tell me honestly—why does it hate you so much that it wants to tear you to pieces? What kind of grudge is there between you two?"

I had always felt that Void-Breaking Houn's reaction was abnormal. Logically speaking, it and Time Houn had come from the same origin, two individuals split from a single body. No matter how poor their relationship was, they should not have become mortal enemies like this, acting as though only one of them could survive.

And Void-Breaking Houn refused to explain itself. It had even come to hate us along with Time Houn. Seeing how it and Di Ting were fighting with their lives on the line, this was clearly a knot that could not be untied.

So I suspected that Time Houn had lied. Its relationship with Void-Breaking Houn definitely was not what it had claimed.

Sure enough, Time Houn's expression looked strange.

After stammering for a long while, it finally said, "After we split, I tried to devour it before it had fully awakened. But just as I began, it suddenly woke up. I don't know why, but it triggered its berserk state. It has been berserk ever since it awoke, and in that state, I was no match for it at all."

"Why did you split?" I felt that was the key question. It had clearly been a Time-Space Houn, so how had it inexplicably split into Time Houn and Void-Breaking Houn? And now Time Houn wanted to fuse with it again—no, Time Houn had just said it wanted to devour Void-Breaking Houn.

"That is our trait. Every Time-Space Houn splits when it reaches a certain stage of growth. You can view this splitting as a kind