The pure-white space was drowned beneath towering floods.
The sea demon standing on the water blew a triumphant whistle, but before its final note could curl upward as usual, she saw several Phantom Limbs wreathed in white mist suddenly burst from beneath the water.
Like sharp arrows, they pierced through her chest with lightning speed.
The sea demon blankly lowered her head to look at the gaping hole in her chest.
Light began to flicker across her skin.
Moments later, like the daughter of the sea, she turned into glowing foam and vanished amid the floodwaters.
And with her disappearance, the pitch-black lump hidden within her gave a series of cracking sounds, its skin slowly splitting apart like porcelain shards.
The Book Demon entered its dying moments.
The pure-white space it had created also shattered into specks of light.
Angel returned to the Flying Book Road, straightened his slightly wrinkled collar, then followed the swaying Book Demon into the nearby gate built from countless Shell Books.
That was the Book Demon's birthplace.
Inside stood an immensely luxuriant tree. Before this tree, the Book Demon transformed into countless specks of ink and merged into the surface of the trunk.
Its final aphorism emerged upon the bark.
After Angel emerged from the hidden space, he said to Gray Porcelain, who had hurried over, "Come on. We're going to the boundary region."
Gray Porcelain poked its head in to glance at the tree within the hidden space, then asked, "We're going to the boundary region now? Although we already have three Location Cursors, we're still missing one piece of hidden information..."
Earlier, Angel had gone near the "Ferris wheel," passed the Book Sprite's trial, and obtained the third Location Cursor.
After that, they continued directly east and encountered another Book Demon in