Shade hesitantly looked around through the darkness, trying to find the source of the gurgling sound, but then abruptly froze and clutched his chest. His hands tingled, and his heart pounded rapidly. Before him, amid the three Holy Emblems, the trembling water created an even darker region. The light of the three Holy Emblems gradually vanished into the water, while bubbles rapidly emerged from that dark area and floated upward.
Amid the dense bubbles appeared a rotting black lump of flesh. Within that disgusting, filthy mass, a golden radiance followed Shade's gaze and, like a sun falling into the deep sea, completely illuminated the surroundings.
Steam mist could not appear in the sea, but the waters behind him truly began to boil from the immense heat. Amid muffled whistles and bells, the enormous spinning Destiny Ring fully emerged. Yet strangely, Blasphemy—Gluttony was flashing with a dazzling, uncanny silver blasphemous glow.
The rotting lump of flesh embedded with golden radiance actively approached Shade, as though it intended to swallow him. But beneath the glow of Blasphemy—Gluttony, when Shade reached out, it was the unknown rotten flesh that smoothly flowed into his body instead.
He had no time to care about such a bizarre scene, nor about the faint nausea and the sense that he seemed to have grown stronger. He focused on the golden radiance floating before him after the rotten flesh vanished. An irrepressible smile appeared on his face as he reached toward that golden light.
Do you remember what you need to say?
"She" asked gently.
Shade felt as though someone had wrapped their arms around his neck from behind. Silver hair drifted beside his ears, softly brushing against his cheeks. Silver moonlight lit up behind him, and as the gentle voice spoke by his ear, he felt a