Within the long, pitch-black mountain passage,
the clanging of iron chains rang out without end.
A man and a woman were making their way through it, their wrists linked by an iron chain to keep them from being separated.
The chain came from the man's body, while a burning white candle stood atop the woman's head. As expected of a Candle Doll specially designed to explore the Extreme Dark Zone, it had remained in the Original Tomb for so long yet still maintained its white flame.
At that moment, an independent mass of pitch-black hair covered in scorch marks burrowed out of his shoulder and took on a standing posture with its hands on its hips.
A mouth containing eyeball-like structures spoke in a multi-layered, blended voice: "William, why does it feel like staying down there for so long has changed your temperament too... Quite a lot of those 'things' you sealed away completely seem to have spilled out."
"Did it?" Yi Chen turned his head and asked with a beaming smile.
"It's obvious~ It even feels like you'd kill me now.
This Grape suspects that the deaths in the Original Tomb seeped into your soul without you realizing it. Or perhaps when you fought the Abyssal Death Image, the 'Deep Death' that seemed to have no effect on you was actually seeping into the depths of your brain, destroying the 'memory vault' you fabricated."
Seeing that Little Grape had already put it that way, Yi Chen's smile gradually turned cold. A voice as chilly as ice crystals seeped from his stiff lips.
"Is that so... No wonder even Stephen and the Craftsman noticed something. Looks like I'll have to spend some time reinforcing the vault again. The 'True Nature' brought to me by heredity and the Orphanage really is