When Angel saw the crystalline creation represented by "Feast of the Glutton" again, his expression froze for a moment.
He still remembered that when he had first encountered "Helen's Dream," its manifested form had been a long crystal whip studded with barbs.
Later, because Helen's Dream had not reached 100% exploration, it linked with someone else's dream and became the current Feast of the Glutton. As the special dream changed, so did its manifested form.
Big Mary Roses of every size bloomed all over the whip. Their vivid crimson made the whip more beautiful, but also far more dangerous.
Under normal circumstances, the Feast of the Glutton Angel saw should still have been that crystal whip covered in Big Mary Roses. Yet what appeared before him, while still technically a long whip, differed from both of its previous forms.
The Big Mary Roses were still there, as were the barbs, and the crystal whip itself had not changed. But human heads had grown from the pistils of the blooming Big Mary Roses!
The heads ranged from old to young, each wearing a different expression—joy, anger, sorrow, and delight alike.
Those expressions might have seemed perfectly normal on their own, but spread across rose pistils, they were steeped in eerie strangeness.
"...Has it evolved again?" Angel murmured. "Should it be called Human-Head Rose now?"
Why had the whip changed again? Angel did not know the specifics either. The only thing he could do now was use the Birdcage perspective to contact Laplace inside the Box Garden and see whether she knew anything.
Angel had originally intended to touch the whip and enter the Birdcage perspective. But looking at the whip covered in human heads, he did not know where it would be appropriate to place his hand. In the end, he