After Wise Sovereign finished giving Little Treasure his instructions, he went to a corner of the room and took out a blank picture frame from a pile of clutter.
Wise Sovereign turned back to glance at everyone. "I'm going inside to rest for a while. Once you're done with your questions, you can have Little Treasure wake me."
Before anyone understood what he meant, Wise Sovereign's body slowly shrank, and he stepped into the picture frame.
As Wise Sovereign's figure vanished, a portrait appeared within the once-blank frame—a one-eyed youth sitting in a mahogany rocking chair, basking in the sunlight from the window with his eyes closed as he peacefully dozed.
By human standards of beauty, symmetry was the most harmonious form of beauty, and having only one eye was rarely considered beautiful.
Yet in this painting, Rembrandt-like lighting carved deep, elegant contours of light and shadow across the one-eyed youth's face, making him seem tranquil and beautiful.
"Is he really asleep?" Dox murmured softly as he looked at the sleeping youth in the painting.
"Of course the Lord Sovereign is asleep. This painting is Sweet Dream. Inside the painting, even a short rest can..." Little One-Eye explained from within the water glass, but abruptly stopped halfway through.
Dox looked at Little One-Eye in confusion. "Go on?"
Little One-Eye gave a huffy snort. "Second Treasure told me not to talk about Sweet Dream's effects. I listen to my brother!"
"Sweet Dream? Is it an alchemical item?" Angel asked. When Little Treasure described Sweet Dream, Angel had felt that it sounded like some special item rather than an ability.
But if it was an alchemical item... Angel was puzzled again, because under the gaze of Alchemy Eye, the picture frame's material was plain to see.
It was a type of wood