This situation gave Angel a powerful sense of déjà vu.
Back in the Abyss, Toby had been tainted by the aura left behind by the Doom Pilgrim, and misfortunes had come one after another. It was inexplicably similar to the current situation.
Of course, the misfortune Mist Shadow had encountered should not have come from the Doom Pilgrim.
Then where had it come from?
Was it simply bad luck? Angel did not quite believe that.
But if an external force had intervened, who could interfere with this kind of fortune?
Among the extraordinary beings Angel had encountered, aside from the Doom Pilgrim and the Destiny Thief, there seemed to be no one else... No, there was one more.
Reynolds himself could also influence fortune to a certain extent. The fact that he could be dubbed "John's Comeback" was no empty title.
But Reynolds had always headed toward good fortune, whereas the current "Reynolds" was plagued by one misfortune after another.
Was this the bodily rejection effect caused by Mist Shadow possessing Reynolds?
So-called rejection could, in fact, be understood as the will of the self expelling foreign anomalies. This did not exist only in individuals; even worlds themselves possessed similar rejection mechanisms. Take Jon, for example. Because he was incompatible with the local will, a whole string of tragedies had followed. That too was a classic case of rejection.
However, rejection was generally not unsolvable. As long as the individual was powerful enough, they could completely crush the native will.
Moreover, the rejection mechanism was a passive defense. Ordinary people truly had few means of strengthening such a passive mechanism—unless they possessed some kind of counterattack method, or had opened a cheat.
Angel did not know whether Reynolds had any means of counterattack. But if the "cheat" that influenced fortune