Ruben looked at the scale before him, the one used to weigh a human brain.
"You're very clever... By reducing the 'quantity,' you're narrowing the gap between you and me. What kind of container do you plan to use to hold my brain?
"Even a small piece of my brain tissue isn't something an ordinary container can withstand."
"A container, huh~ It definitely needs to meet the condition of being 'empty,' without favoring either me or Prison Boss, to ensure sufficient fairness.
"So it will be provided by a 'third party' unrelated to the Sick One and God Domain."
William, on the screen, clapped his hands.
Clap, clap! The enormous applause was amplified through the audio equipment's speakers and echoed through the abyss.
Something was rapidly falling from the top of the abyss.
Boom!
Two human bodies crashed heavily onto the ground.
Everything below the neck was completely human,
but their heads had been modified with metal, pierced through by various copper pipes and coarse cables in a retro-metal style. Expanders had forced their skulls open, making it convenient for the two of them to insert their respective brain tissues.
Ruben did not look at the containers before him. Instead, he looked toward the sky above the abyss.
Even though it was covered by endless darkness, he still saw something that did not belong to the Sick One—a crack concealed by the darkness.
He even saw a peering eye that no longer held any fear, its eye socket replaced by a Metal Ring. Even after that eye noticed Ruben's gaze, it still did not avert itself.
The shyness and inferiority it had once possessed seemed to have been erased.
Ruben shifted his gaze back, rather surprised.
"Gap? No wonder I couldn't find anything, yet still felt that something was wrong...