Filth and Decay had three emissaries:
Drachirko, Afros, and Tria.
This was information the Dragon King had once given.
If Afros had not mentioned Tria again today, Cheng Shi would have nearly forgotten that such a person existed.
But what had Afros said?
Tria's vessel?
That vessel of Filth and Decay had clearly fallen from Lele'er. How could it belong to Tria...
Wait!
Why had Lele'er not been among the three emissaries of Filth and Decay mentioned by the Dragon King?
Cheng Shi was suddenly dumbfounded. He recalled his first confrontation with the Dragon King and sensed the certainty in the other's tone. The Dragon King had clearly meant that Filth and Decay had only three emissaries. Then... what about Lele'er?
As the Daughter of Prosperity who had betrayed Prosperity and leaped into the Sea of Desire, and as the Fear Mother Tree that absorbed the fears of the universe for the Sea of Desire, how could she not be an emissary of Filth and Decay?
Right! Lele'er had once said that she had not jumped down willingly, but had been pushed into the Sea of Desire by some unknown force!
Could it be that this "desire" of hers had not been acknowledged by the Sea of Desire, and that her identity had not been accepted by Filth and Decay?
Cheng Shi stared blankly at Afros and asked the greatest question in his heart:
"The Fear Mother Tree, Lele'er, isn't an emissary of Filth and Decay?"
Afros was also taken aback. "Who told you the Daughter of Prosperity was my lord's servant?"
"...?"
This was bad. A major problem had surfaced.
Cheng Shi suddenly understood. He realized that he had been mistaken about something all along: it seemed that not every emissary retained the same status after defecting to another