Angel stopped as soon as he mentioned Toby's coma. As for lifting the Calamity Curse afterward, he merely mentioned in passing that a powerful senior had helped Toby remove the curse, without going into the details of what had happened in between.
Yet this brief account alone was enough to astonish Gloria and Felicia.
Gloria had never imagined that Toby's coma had involved such a turbulent chain of events. What surprised her even more was that, during the period when she had lost contact with Angel, he had actually gone to the Abyss?
Gloria was very curious about Angel's experiences in the Abyss, but this was clearly not the right time for gossip.
The subject returned to Toby.
The Calamity Curse had thrown Toby into danger and prematurely stirred the Five Flavors Tribulation lurking within him. That was the cause and effect of it all.
Angel could not truly be blamed for this, nor could Toby. No one had expected that the Gloomy Dead Sea, where the Doom Pilgrim dwelled, would have an underground river connected to Watchtower Fortress, leading Toby to inadvertently eat an Olof Tendril Crab containing the Calamity Curse.
After pondering for a moment, Gloria asked, "You said you entered Toby's dream before. In that dream, Toby behaved completely differently from usual?"
"Yes. In the dream, Toby showed no change in front of me, but behind my back, he was extremely hostile toward some of the servants around me. He was even aggressive." Angel recounted that dream experience in detail. "...There was something else strange. The setting in the dream should have been Pat Manor, where I was born, deep within the Old Earth Continent. But in Toby's dream, Pat Manor was on a small island, surrounded on all sides by an endless, boundless sea."
After hearing