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"Urgh—!"
The boy who had suddenly appeared before Noah and Wendy bent over without any warning. His expression twisted, sweat continuously streaming down his face as though he were in extreme pain.
"No... no..." The boy clutched his head as if suppressing something, letting out a low groan filled with both pain and grief.
"Wait... I'll leave now... I'll leave right now... Don't come out at a time like this... Please, don't come out at a time like this..."
However, as the boy's pained, grief-stricken voice echoed around them, some presence seemingly hidden within him ignored his will and erupted wildly, causing a terrifying aura to surge from his body.
Sensing the dreadful aura suddenly exploding from within the boy, Noah's pupils contracted, and his heart jolted a moment later.
"This is bad!"
Without hesitation, Noah spun around and pulled the bewildered Wendy into his arms.
"Uwaaaaaah—!"
At the same time, the boy, who had been clutching his head as if suppressing something inside himself, suddenly screamed.
"Bzzzt—!"
With a strange tremor, a mist-like darkness came flooding violently out of the screaming boy's body.
It was darkness as pure as the deepest black, containing an incomparably dense wave of death—a horrifying darkness capable of driving people to despair.
The dense darkness surged madly from the boy's body like fog, then swirled around him like black currents of air, gradually forming a pitch-black barrier.
"Aaaaaaah—!"
Within that pure darkness, the boy screamed in agony. His originally