"What was that?"
That Fallen One looked rather peculiar. He wore a cloak woven from green grass leaves, and his head resembled an upright thumb. It was dark red and covered in fine, fingerprint-like patterns, with no facial features. Yet the left side bore a white bony mask with one large and one small circular ornament. Two downward-curving feelers protruded from either side of his head.
The part of his body below the neck consisted of countless white insect legs and toes, like a... strange cocoon.
Asymmetrical!
Bizarre!
He looked like a butterfly or moth that had been forced out of its cocoon before completing metamorphosis. Or perhaps like a beetle stripped of its exoskeleton, somehow finding white insect legs to wrap around itself, hoping that one day it could emerge from its cocoon as a butterfly.
"Dark."
Following Zhou Qing's gaze, the Boss Lady spotted the Fallen One and said in surprise, "I never expected it to be him!"
"Is he famous?"
"He is Captain Hope's deputy, as well as a sage possessed of great wisdom. He lives in the Bell Tower. Corac, Watch, and Alem are all his students, but he remains there year-round and rarely leaves..."
The Boss Lady introduced him, saying, "To seek light within darkness is his mission!"
Dark?
Dark?
Zhou Qing's brow twitched, but the figure called "Dark" had already vanished. Presumably, he had returned to the Bell Tower.
"Dark... It has been a long time since I last saw such shock, even fear, on his face." A somewhat dull, hoarse voice sounded from nearby.
Zhou Qing immediately turned and saw Riko, Mahaha, and an adult woman with dark red hair, heavy dark circles beneath her eyes, shorts on her head, and a bulky cotton coat wrapped around her body, disguised as a Fallen