Without the slightest warning, the Ancient Mask clamped onto her face.
"Hmm?"
Gulu was stunned for a moment, then her pupils contracted. She instinctively raised a hand to grab the mask on her face, but it was already too late. She... felt nothing at all.
"Right now! Hurry up! Take that lousy mask off your face, now!!"
Holy Poem's voice appeared in Gulu's mind, making her even more confused. Then she realized what was happening.
Gulu figured that the old schemer beside her had put the mask on her with bad intentions. Still, he probably wouldn't go so far as to get her killed—or nearly killed. After all, there was still the Brigade Leader's connection. No matter what, she was a member of the Brigade.
That was indeed what had happened. When Su Xiao arranged for Crow to act, he summoned the Necronomicon, then summoned the Ancient Mask as well.
The mask had indeed left earlier, acting as though it had severed ties with Su Xiao. But one must not forget that the small piece missing from the Ancient Mask was still in Su Xiao's hands. With that fragment, even if the mask eventually advanced into a "father-grade" item, it still had no way to deal with him.
What was more, the Ancient Mask was at most "quasi-father-grade" right now. It was still far below the level of the Abyss Jar and the Necronomicon.
Su Xiao was using the Ancient Mask to demand payment. One must not forget that when he fought the Underworld on the alien battlefield, the Ancient Mask had absorbed an enormous amount of abyssal energy inside his Hive.
The mask had absorbed 99 percent of the Underworld's abyssal energy. The Underworld's collapse had elevated it to "quasi-father-grade."
Now that he had to deal with the Sin