On the surface, she was a thirty-three-year-old woman who had murdered several people because of her persecutory delusions. She was locked up in a high-security mental hospital, where her neighbor was a painter who had killed and eaten someone for leaving a bad review.
In reality, her psychological age was nine years and five months. She lived in an orphanage in another world, and what she saw before her was merely a painful hallucination she was forced to indulge in.
At least they had once been cellmates, so Fu Qian still remembered some things about her.
Whether because the agent had died at his hands or because the laws had collapsed, "Lairding" had indeed undergone a transformation.
Esther could actually walk the streets so freely, without fear of being locked up in a mental hospital again.
He wondered how the resistance leader, Lady Raven, and Mariana and the others had welcomed this new age of upheaval.
Though compared with them, Fu Qian thought the woman before him was indeed more valuable.
Esther's character profile might sound a little familiar at first, stirring a vague urge to make a snarky comment.
But to Fu Qian, that was her most notable trait: the "mismatch" that Lady Raven and the others had personally confirmed.
Esther was the only person whose name and body didn't match in the two Lairdings, and she had received special attention because of it.
Might a character like that be more likely to sway the situation amid the fierce changes unfolding now?
"An acquaintance? Judging by her constitution alone, she's still an ordinary person for the time being."
Following his gaze, the Witch quickly understood what was going on.
"An acquaintance. When the laws reappeared and Lairding returned, she was one of the Awakened Ones in this nightmare.
"But