"Sersi, the look in your eyes is a little frightening..."
"You were supposed to take good care of Sersi!"
Kingo shrank back at her words, not daring to meet her eyes.
Sersi was furious, but there was nothing she could do about him.
The group set out again and successfully found Gilgamesh and Thena, who had secluded themselves in the Australian wilderness.
Thena suffered from an unexplained mental illness they called "Eternal Madness Syndrome."
Whenever it flared up, she would attack everyone without distinguishing friend from foe until she was forcibly calmed down.
Under normal circumstances, she needed Gilgamesh's physical assistance to regain her composure.
Therefore, for her own safety and that of others, she could only live under Gilgamesh's care.
The two of them were now living together.
Inside a small, shabby-looking earthen house, they met Gilgamesh and Thena.
Thena had become like a child, while Gilgamesh had become like a doting dad.
Yet there was unexpectedly a third person present, someone who looked like a completely ordinary human.
However, Druid's ability told him that the other man's identity was anything but ordinary.
"Peering into someone else's mind the first time you meet them—isn't that a little rude?"
"You're not human," Druid said with certainty.
"I've entered human brains countless times. You're very different from them."
Kingo looked at Gilgamesh. "Buddy, who's he?"
"A friend. He helped Thena and me," Gilgamesh said.
Not long ago, Thena had lost control once. It was the man before them who had helped him suppress her symptoms.
"Let me introduce myself. My name is Grav."
As he spoke, his appearance suddenly changed. He became a green-skinned humanoid with pointed ears.
"I'm a Skrull."
Skrulls' Ambition
The Skrulls were a rather unusual alien race.
Members of this race could alter their appearance and