Ibn instinctively clamped his legs together. For some reason, when he looked at Xie Jiatu again, a trace of sympathy appeared in his eyes—but sympathy was sympathy. He still quickly scanned his surroundings, and finally picked up a stone from the ground.
For self-defense.
"Then what happened?" Night Watcher Otto shook his head. Clearly, more had happened afterward, and they shouldn't end the topic there.
Xie Jiatu shook his head and said regretfully, "At first, I didn't know what was on the trays of the Scales... My first reaction was simply to pick up the object on the right. Thinking back now, if I'd picked up the object on the left first, perhaps the City of the Sun would look completely different today, wouldn't it?"
Night Watcher Otto frowned, his heart stirring. "The one on the right was Seth's... Hmm, the one on the left was the Eye of Horus. You mean that whether it was the thing Seth left behind or the Eye of Horus, each contained its own will?"
"Yes." Xie Jiatu nodded.
The Night Watcher frowned again. "Then why did the left eye appear in the pharaoh?"
Xie Jiatu was silent for a moment before slowly saying, "I... At least, it should have been another version of me. He wanted to replicate Horus's power, so he created the kingdom's pharaoh and implanted this left eye in him."
Night Watcher Otto suddenly sneered. "I'm afraid it wasn't only that, was it? The pharaoh of this kingdom fell in love with the temple's previous Saintess, and they had the current Princess... Wasn't that your true objective?"
The Princess's gaze sharpened. It met Xie Jiatu's at that moment, and she asked in a low voice, "Is that true?"
Xie Jiatu looked at her and finally sighed. "At first, the idea