The Cancer Palace's topmost floor was also the highest point in the Old World, apart from the Evil Sun.
It was also known as "the Sovereign's bedchamber."
To reach the bedchamber, one had to take the only elevator,
then pass through an endless corridor hung with layer upon layer of flesh.
The corridor continuously grew without pause. It even ignored spatial obstacles and kept extending, its length having long since exceeded the Cancer Palace's width.
At the end, in the room corresponding to the bedchamber, stood a large bed made of flesh. It was said that this mass of flesh had existed since the birth of the Old World, and that the entire Cancer Palace, along with the Pus Lake surrounding it, was produced by this flesh cushion.
Yet this crucial core had been made into the Sovereign's bed for resting.
A scarlet, translucent curtain concealed the "scene" within the bedchamber. One could vaguely see a pair of legs drifting behind it, though there seemed to be something else as well.
Suddenly,
the drifting legs came to a halt.
Toes painted with grotesque images dangled over the edge of the bed and lightly touched the ground, sensing every abnormal signal in the Cancer Palace. They discovered an unusual incident occurring in an arena within a cave in the upper-middle region.
A murky sound that ordinary people could not hear spread through the bedchamber.
§Death Plague~ No, there seems to be something else mixed in—a death from beyond this world that isn't controlled by that skull. What an interesting outsider. What a pity that she's already been marked by "Little Sister."§
As a slash of black light rose from the arena,
the four-handed, four-scythed Blood Mantis—Figley, resembling a long-bodied insect god of death—temporarily stopped suppressing Jin and looked back at