As Angel pondered how to act, Gomito quietly backed away... It released its mental power, not only calming the shock brought by the pressure, but also dispersing the anger in this body.
Yes, the body's anger.
When Mist Shadow had returned to that cursed corridor to look for the bottle and found it gone, it had indeed felt a flicker of anger. But reason told it that everyone inside the laboratory was on the fourth floor. If someone had appeared on the first floor and taken the bottle, it was most likely the human it had encountered on the fifth floor. And that human was someone it could not deal with yet.
Mist Shadow had intended to leave then and there. What was inside the bottle was important, certainly, but not wholly irreplaceable. It had a more important goal.
What Mist Shadow had not expected was that Gomito, whose body it had only just possessed, had far greater emotional fluctuations than it had imagined.
That mere trace of leaking anger was caught by Gomito's foolish judgment and instantly turned into a surging, roaring volcano.
Before its reason had fully recovered, raging fury gained the upper hand over its capacity for action and cognition. It followed the route and directly chased after Angel.
Even Mist Shadow could not stop Gomito's brainless berserk fury. It had even been affected in turn.
—This was a drawback of its possession ability. It needed a certain amount of time to fully attune itself to and control the possessed target's emotions.
By the time its rationality gradually returned, Mist Shadow had already arrived before Angel.
Its thoughts did not regain control until after the pressure descended. In a way, Angel's pressure had actually helped Mist Shadow, swiftly suppressing Gomito's emotions.
Although Mist Shadow had now regained