The great doors before them slowly opened, revealing a vast space.
A huge green flower, three meters tall, swayed in the center of the room.
Its green was not the sickening sort of green. Specks of fluorescence drifted from it, making it look strangely beautiful, drawing the eye and making one unable to resist wanting to get closer.
Other than the enormous flower, there were six poison-men who looked no older than ten. They seemed to have been altered along with the other poison-men, except they were younger.
Fly wings stretched from their backs, making them look rather disgusting.
They had been arranged at the points of a hexagram, each occupying one point, with the Underworld Flower at the very center.
A potential test would reveal that all six children possessed magic growth potential of at least S-.
Six extraordinary beings who could each stand on their own had been reduced to nourishment for this flower.
Nimel took a deep breath, resolutely stepped to Caroso's side, and drew her final card.
"Hello, Macy." As though nothing were wrong, Caroso greeted the Underworld Flower.
"You read the diary?"
At that moment, a gentle voice sounded beside Caroso's ear.
Caroso frowned slightly. That was... Mother's voice?
In an instant, as though some terrible memory had surfaced, Caroso's little face twisted with fury.
"Child, come to me..."
To Caroso's ears, that voice was no longer his mother's. It had become something malicious and venomous.
Caroso abruptly raised his head and glared ahead.
"Older brother, were you talking to me?" Nimel looked at Caroso in confusion.
"It's imitating my voice," Caroso said heavily.
[What does that mean? At first I heard a gentle woman's voice, then it turned into that kind of... witch voice?]
[Damn it, headphone users nearly died on the spot. I