"Are you surprised, Hank?"
"Elaine still looks just as she did back then."
Cain, who had transformed into blood and slipped out from beneath Hank, rapidly re-formed his body nearby. He spread his arms, gazed at Elaine in the air, and smiled broadly.
"Beautiful, isn't she?"
"You should thank me!"
"Even with my power, it isn't easy to keep her in this state."
No sooner had Cain finished speaking than hurried footsteps sounded behind him.
"Mr. Hank!"
It was Charles, the girl in a dress holding a hunting rifle.
It was unclear why the "lizardman" and "spider woman" from before had suddenly vanished.
Logically, with Charles's strength, she should not have been able to escape from the two Pseudo-Divine Soldiers.
[Hum------]
But the instant the girl hurried into the building—
The Dream Stones filling the cabinet beside the wall began trembling in unison.
"Ah!!!"
At the same time, Charles screamed in agony, clutching her ears tightly with both hands as she collapsed onto the floor littered with broken bricks and dust.
Hank and Cain both looked surprised.
Aside from the sounds of the Dream Stone minerals trembling and repeatedly striking the cabinet—
They could not hear anything remotely unpleasant.
"I see."
Cain seemed to understand something. A sentence surfaced in his mind:
[It must be the blood of a saintess—the blood of one who can hear the "voice of God."]
His former teacher had once told him this.
By reading Elaine's memories, he had also confirmed that she was a "saintess."
The Pseudo-Divine Soldier technology was actually knowledge she had "heard" from the Dream Stones.
Unfortunately, his ability could only read fragments of memories.
He simply could not obtain the complete technology from Elaine's mind.
That was why he had been searching for another "saintess" all along.
But how could