Deep within the thick Blood Mist, some distance away from Shade, the Pink Dragon Maid was carefully treading through the Blood Water when she suddenly froze. She sensed that some of the bubbles she had left with Shade had abruptly vanished.
She did not maintain a constant awareness of those bubbles; she could only know their condition when she actively checked on them. As for why she had immediately noticed that the bubbles left with Shade were behaving abnormally, it was naturally because Gina Rosa had always been sensing Shade.
As for why she alone had kept watching the bubbles on him, only the Pink Dragon Young Lady herself could explain that.
She looked at the figure of Shade beside her, only to discover in shock that it was not Shade at all. It was not even an identical shell made of Flesh, but merely a recorded phantom capable of repeatedly performing the motion of walking.
Fortunately, she was certain that the Halfling Young Lady she held in her arms was still real.
Gina wanted to warn everyone that Shade had disappeared, but a question suddenly arose in her mind:
"If Shade is fake, then are the others real?"
The moment she realized this, she abruptly noticed that although the Halfling Young Lady in her arms was breathing and had a heartbeat, there seemed to be no pulse of blood flowing within her body at all.
As for Madam Gustav, who was walking ahead while pulling the rope, the longer Gina looked at her back, the more unfamiliar it seemed. Even the tail wrapped around the Dragon Maid's waist to keep it from touching the Blood Water broke out in goosebumps.
"Oh, my Miss Feliana~"
She softly moaned in her heart, feeling that things were about to go badly. And