"I can see that you are different from them. You will eventually become my companion."
Though three Four Nightmares of the same rank were eyeing him with ill intent, Madness of the Bottom Hughes treated them as if they were air, merely turning his upper Elven body toward Anvis as he spoke.
"Would you like to see it? Awaken from the dream in advance and behold this world's true face."
As if suddenly remembering something, Hughes's dark green canopy swayed, and he added an explanation.
"There is no need to worry. You are different from me. After seeing the truth of the world, even if you wish to sink back into the dream, that will still be your freedom."
The world's true face? Gazing into Hughes's pair of pure dark green eyes, Anvis hesitated.
The first time he had met Hughes, he had done so under the identity of Dark Tidis. Yet Hughes had come directly to him now without sparing Tidis another glance, which meant that Anvis had been his target all along.
"How will you let me see the truth of the world?"
"It is very simple. Cover your eyes with this leaf and let it melt into your gaze."
Hughes shook his massive tree-like body, causing a strange dark green oval leaf to fall from his canopy and land in Anvis's hand.
"You cannot truly believe his words, can you, Anvis, Your Excellency? He himself is the incarnation of madness, an existence that has gathered the madness of the entire Inheritance Land.
"You must understand that no madman believes himself to be mad. They only think the entire world has gone mad, while they alone remain sane!"
Before Anvis could act, Black Abyss of Despair bluntly spoke up and refuted Hughes.
He had long found this mad