Ember received an order from Mother: bring back her lost Fourth Sister.
Two Gray Mist Sources received this order, but only Ember hurried to the place Mother had indicated.
The world of gray mist was cruel. Even though she and the other three gray mist consciousnesses in this city had all been created by the same Mother.
There was no familial affection among the gray mists. Ember had been born relatively late, so she had always been suppressed by her older brother and sister.
As a result, the power she possessed was far inferior to that of the first two Gray Mist Sources to be born.
She despised her older brother and eldest sister, but Fourth Sister was different.
In these cold gray mist relationships, Fourth Sister was the only one from whom Ember could feel any warmth.
Ember was terribly worried about Lietta's safety.
The humans in this city were even more dangerous than her own kind. When Ember was young, she had still felt some pity for humans.
But after her older brother showed Ember the cruelty of this city's humans, every trace of that pity had long since been wiped away.
Lietta had not eaten last night and had left home on an empty stomach today...
If she had collapsed by the roadside...
Ember did not dare imagine what would happen next. The tentacles extending from behind her suddenly stabbed into the ground. The instant cracks spread across the earth, Ember leaped a hundred meters into the air.
She traveled through the streets this way, reaching the place Mother had marked in less than three minutes.
It was the headquarters of a human organization called the Sewing Gang.
When the gang members guarding outside the Sewing Gang saw Ember appear with such an imposing manner, they immediately