Fairy Tale World, Middle World.
Angel flew behind Sanders, heading deep into the pitch-black, desolate mountains.
"You seem to have quite a grudge against Talos?" Sanders suddenly asked halfway through the journey.
Angel hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
Not long ago, they had still been in the bright skies of Sky Mechanical City, but in the blink of an eye, they had arrived in the Fairy Tale World through a teleportation array. They had originally planned to pass through Silent Hill before heading to Black Castle.
After teleporting to Silent Hill, they did not linger there and left directly.
However, when leaving Silent Hill, they had to pass by a very talkative Two-Faced Stone Spirit.
That Stone Spirit was Silent Hill's Gatekeeper, and his name was Talos.
"I was once ambushed by Isabella in Silent Hill. At the time, I fled near Talos, but he didn't open the gate and let me leave."
As a result, with nowhere left to escape, Angel had been forced to face Isabella head-on.
Angel actually knew that Isabella had merely been toying with him at the time. Even if Talos had opened the gate, he probably still would have been caught by Isabella. But that was something Angel had realized only afterward. At the time, his sole path to survival had been to leave through Talos. Yet when Angel fled near Talos, the usually talkative Talos had shown no reaction at all, remaining as silent as an ordinary stone.
Talos's refusal to open the gate had also made his attitude clear: he was not on Angel's side. In other words, it did not matter to him if Isabella killed Angel.
Because of that experience, when they had previously passed through Silent Hill on their way through, Angel could not resist sneering after hearing