This World Is Seriously Ill

"Legend says the Karl Rune is the key to establishing contact with Him!"

"Cough, cough... I... I only know this much... Spare me..."

The streetwalker Liana hurriedly spoke, her voice trembling as her hands weakly slapped at Kevin's forearm.

The pain of her mind being scorched by light made her eyes bulge as she wheezed for breath, her muscles beginning to convulse in terror.

At last, the fingers locked around her throat loosened. The demon before her smiled in satisfaction and gently patted Liana's trembling shoulder.

"Good. That's a good girl."

Hearing the whisper by her ear, the streetwalker shuddered instinctively. Her delicate body had collapsed onto the floor, soft as a puddle of mud.

Formless O'dhan?

Byrgenwerth Academy was the first to discover... the Karl Rune... So this was why Master Willem had sought the Eye Within the Skull.

He had needed to find a way to improve Insight and, through interpreting the Karl Rune, forge a bond with Formless O'dhan and glimpse more of this world's mysteries.

Kevin mulled over the information he had obtained. He glanced around the little chapel, rubbed his chin thoughtfully, then looked meaningfully at the cowering streetwalker in the corner.

"Yharnam Cathedral? You being here wasn't a coincidence, was it?"

"It was... the Queen's order..."

"Formless O'dhan craves tainted blood. I was to conceive a divine child here..."

The streetwalker Liana had already had her mental defenses crushed by the being before her. Hugging her knees as she crouched in the corner, she muttered her reply.

When she heard no response from the monster for a long while, she recalled the horrifying sight from earlier and hurriedly racked her brains for more to add.

"Also, while the Celestial Clock Tower was dispatching hunters on some major mission, I had already obeyed the Queen's