White fog lingered over the graveyard left behind by the Ancient God of Death. Shade crouched before a square gray stone gravestone while Iluna stood behind him, watching as he solemnly carved the information he currently knew onto it:
Thomas Granger (Sixth Epoch, 1739–1780)
Second son of the Granger Family. Missing person.
Died by suicide.
Stone chips flaked away. Shade then affixed Mr. Granjay's handwritten letter to the gravestone, but it showed no reaction.
"Looks like it's the second guess."
He erased the words from a few seconds ago with the Breath of Time, then wrote again:
Thomas Granger (Sixth Epoch, 1739–1780)
Second son of the Granger Family. Missing person.
He gave his life to save the Mad Earth.
He died from the Earth's mad curse.
The stone chips vanished as soon as they landed on the fog-shrouded ground. This time, after the letter was attached to the gravestone, stone chips automatically peeled away from the blank space below. Clearly, Shade had guessed correctly.
"So Mr. Granjay actually told the truth in his suicide note! He really did die because of the curse. I never imagined that the curse he mentioned was the Earth's curse."
Place of death:
The transformation abruptly stopped after revealing only those words. Shade rose in surprise, and Iluna did not understand what was happening either.
"Why didn't it keep appearing? Do we not know enough?"
As soon as she spoke, tiny letters continued to emerge. Shade and Iluna both lowered their heads to look at the continuing text, then widened their eyes in astonishment together:
Place of death: Old Continent, Kassenric United Kingdom, eastern outskirts of Huntington City, basement of White River Valley Vineyard, beside the statue at the Old God-Original Crack.
"What?"
Iluna looked at Shade in confusion, while Shade immediately recalled the unidentified