Su Qing'an was meeting the Lord Bishop of Schicksal for the first time.
He was an elegant, refined blond man.
His handsome face carried a smile. As his emerald eyes lowered, his golden lashes stood out clearly in the lamplight.
He looked nothing like the arrogant villain who scorned the entire world. He was far too quiet and polite to be a madman who ignored all ethics and morality.
Otto Apocalyse seemed to be welcoming a long-lost friend, completely unconcerned with his previous actions or the violent manner in which the two had entered.
The man's smile was sincere and warm. With his hair falling to his shoulders and his exquisite, elegant formal attire, he looked like a modern poet.
Anyone unaware of the truth would only think him a Western nobleman who loved peaceful living, had some accomplishments in the arts, and treated others with gentleness.
Yet both people present understood that the Lord Bishop before them was nothing like that on the inside.
Moreover, in Su Qing'an's eyes, the other's true personality and thoughts passed through his outward appearance. Through soul observation and his instinctive perception of Manas, they became vague impressions, as though all layers of disguise had been stripped away to reveal the core.
—Color.
The youth could glimpse a mental image woven together in the form of colors.
The impression Otto Apocalyse gave him was like chaos formed from countless black flames surging and churning.
All kinds of mixed colors spread and leaped along the edges of those black flames, like a filthy, turbid river.
Yet the closer they surged toward the center, the purer and clearer they became.
Once they reached a certain boundary, they harmoniously and gently clustered around that beam of white light, never approaching any closer, like devout believers.
That was