At the sight of two people appearing at once, Yota's eyes went wide.
Only after a long while did Yota shakily point at the tattoo-faced man and ask Angel in a low voice, "He is...?"
At first, Yota had assumed the tattoo-faced man was another visitor like himself and the Giant City Spirit. But the tattoo-faced man and Hong Gemata had entered the Dream Crystal Plain at the same time and appeared in the exact same place, leaving Yota uncertain.
Then he recalled what Angel had said earlier: there had been two fluctuations of consciousness within Hong Gemata's Sacred Corpse Crystal.
Yota felt his heart abruptly seize. Could it be...?
Yota stared fixedly at Angel. At last, Angel turned to look at him and gently... nodded.
"Unless something unexpected happened, he should be the other consciousness entangled within the same Sacred Corpse Crystal as Hong Gemata."
"???" Yota was completely dumbfounded upon hearing that answer.
How could there be two consciousnesses inside a Sacred Corpse Crystal? Even if there truly were two, they should have been two members of the Crystal-Eyed Race. How had one become a human?
Yota's expression was complicated, and he seemed to want to speak but stopped himself.
Without even asking, Angel could guess what Yota wanted to ask. Those were precisely the questions he wanted answered as well.
Looking at the bewildered tattoo-faced man and Hong Gemata opposite them, Angel said softly, "This isn't the place to talk. Let's go back to Rabbit Town first."
Several minutes later, in a semi-open hall inside Rabbit Tower.
Everyone had gathered there.
Laplace, Angel, Yota, the Giant City Spirit, Yifuda... as well as Hong Gemata and the tattoo-faced man, who loathed the sight of one another and looked ready to fight on the spot, were all seated