Travel Cabin.
Blanche and Kemei looked at Uriel as though he were a god descended from heaven.
Uriel's journey through Forest Dreamscape had been a harrowing adventure, full of twists, riddles, and traps. Yet he had solved every challenge in just a few minutes?!
More astonishing still, all the scenes before that had taken less than twenty minutes combined!
Even an open-book exam shouldn't have been this easy, should it?
This wasn't clearing a challenge. It was a speedrun from start to finish.
Uriel, however, looked perfectly calm.
As far as he was concerned, anyone who couldn't tell direction by sound was far too slow on the uptake.
The three "slow" people present could only stare at him in silence.
In the end, Angel gently broke the silence. "You said Wonderland displayed a new piece of information about the truth behind the Evil Spirit. What did it say?"
At that, Uriel's expression turned serious.
He immediately shared the information from the Text Panel.
"You have discovered a living soul hidden within the 'Evil Spirit.' (Expandable)"
Whatever the others thought, surprise clearly flashed through Angel's eyes when he read those words.
Why a... living soul?!
What was a living soul?
In essence, it was the opposite of a dead soul or a wandering spirit.
Put simply, while a person was alive, the soul within their body could be called a living soul.
Once that person died, the soul lost its vessel and became a dead soul. If negative energy corroded it in that state, it would twist into a wandering spirit.
By that definition, the soul inside every living person was a living soul.
But that raised a question.
The "Evil Spirit" was clearly dead. Why was there a living soul inside him?
Angel froze for a moment, then a thought