"This Sugar Cube Girl with the stinking long name—wasn't she just an NPC in your illusion? She even has her own kingdom?" Dox suppressed his anger, stepped close to Angel, and glared at him.
Angel went around Dox and continued onward. "Didn't I tell you? Something went a little wrong. These Sugar Cube Girls and the like were all products of that mishap, not part of the illusion I created."
"Then how did you know they have their own kingdom?" Dox followed after him.
"Deduction," Angel said. "Just like earlier—you went through the first Zodiac Palace. From her questions alone, with your intelligence, you should already have been able to deduce some information."
"And just now, I had my test subject go from start to finish. The information she obtained basically confirmed my speculations."
"The test subject you mentioned was that undead creature just now?" Dox suddenly asked. He had noticed that strange undead before; its aura had been exceedingly peculiar. And though its face had been deliberately concealed, it had still given him a faint sense of familiarity.
"Your focus sure shifted quickly. You were asking about their kingdom just now, and now you're concerned about my subordinate. What, taken a fancy to my undead?"
After speaking, Angel suddenly wore a strange expression. "Don't tell me you have that kind of fetish too, like Nis?"
Dox could not recall who Nis was for the moment. But Angel had mentioned a "fetish" while looking at him with such disgust that Dox immediately understood what he meant.
Forcing down the urge to retort, Dox said word by word, "I have no interest whatsoever in undead. I just think she looked familiar."
"But she saw you too just now, and she showed no abnormal reaction. So you must have mistaken her for