After Natasha and Kimberly left, only Angel and Sparrow Sparrow remained in the quiet room.
"Big Brother, I knew you would definitely come back!" Sparrow Sparrow beamed happily. The joy in her words was unlike the superficial courtesy Angel encountered when speaking with others. He could clearly feel the sincerity and purity that came from the depths of Sparrow Sparrow's heart.
Angel could not help being infected by her emotions. Smiling, he said, "You were that sure? Did you never consider that I might not come back?"
"You would come back, because I saw it!" As Sparrow Sparrow spoke, a faint clear light flashed through her crescent-moon eyes.
She saw it? Angel recalled Isabella mentioning before that Sparrow Sparrow was also a special soul. At the time, Angel had not pressed her about her special ability, because he had already formed a guess.
"Precognition?" Angel asked.
Sparrow Sparrow froze for a moment, then nodded repeatedly like a pecking chicken. "It really is precognition. How did Big Brother know? Did Lady Isabella tell you?"
Sure enough, Sparrow Sparrow's special ability was precognition.
Isabella had once said that the abilities of special souls either came from abilities they possessed in life or were formed through fortuitous opportunities after death.
Sparrow Sparrow had remained beneath the well after dying, making it difficult for her to encounter any opportunity. Then the answer was most likely the former: she had inherited the ability she possessed in life, the Origin-Worshiping Clan's precious gift—precognition.
Angel had actually suspected this already.
In her journal, Sparrow Sparrow had written many strange, incomprehensible phrases. Especially in the final entry: aside from drawing herself leaving with Natasha, she had left behind one ambiguous sentence: "I saw many things. Only by leaving can I see more?"
See many things? Beneath a pitch-black,