Silver Shadow

Tales clenched his teeth, trembling slightly.

He suddenly looked up!

Yet the strange man on the rock wall had disappeared again.

Tales began breathing rapidly.

No.

Kez...

He had no time for ghosts and spirits. Tales frantically reached toward the collapsed edge, trying to find something to brace himself against so he could climb down and search for Kez.

But it was as if the Black Path deliberately meant to toy with him. Cracking sounds came from above again.

"Crash—"

A rock fell. Tales instinctively threw himself aside, and the rock smashed down where he had been, sending fragments flying.

Damn it...

Damn it!

"Bang!"

Countless stones continued to fall from beside and above him. The boy could only clutch his head tightly and curl into a ball, rolling left and right within the perception of Sin of the Hell River, doing his best to avoid the larger rocks.

"Rumble..."

At last, Tales felt everything around him fall silent.

The Prince lowered his arms and lay on his back, forcing himself to endure the soreness and discomfort in his eyes.

Kez...

Remembering the despair on the female tailor's face at the end, Tales could not stop himself from clenching his fist and smashing it hard against the ground.

Just then, Tales suddenly felt a chill above his head.

He sprang upright!

Sure enough, the Prince saw in horror that countless figures had appeared around him again.

On the wall ahead, on the jutting rocks behind him, on the ground beside his left foot, at the cliff edge above him...

With withered flesh, deathly pale eyes, and rotten lips and teeth.

It was them.

Them again.

Countless eerie faces slowly emerged from the rock walls like things rising from the water, as though they were not physical beings at all.

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