Gopher Wood: Misha, Take Me With You! How Am I Supposed to Live Without You?! (1W3, continued)

Ternan had originally planned to come to Oak Manor, shoot Gofei Mu once, and leave without lingering for even a moment.

He wanted to give him that isolated feeling of "everyone ignores him and lets him go play in the mud by himself."

A proper Penacony-style bullying!

But if you put it that way, then you've got my attention! I'm definitely eating this melon!

"Uh..." Looking at the eager Ternan and the pleading Gofei Mu, Mikhail found himself in a difficult position.

"Let's go take a look. What if Gofei Mu really is plotting something against Penacony? You know Gofei Mu... He used to be a good man, but who knows what kind of pervert he's become after all these centuries?" Ternan continued fanning the flames, every word cutting to the heart.

Since it involved "the darkest crime," it was definitely bold and exciting.

And there was an eighty-percent chance it had something to do with Penacony.

"That makes sense..." Mikhail nodded thoughtfully, his expression gradually turning serious.

"No! You can't." Gofei Mu's attempt to dissuade him was pale and powerless.

Because Gofei Mu's darkest crime really did involve Penacony!

What if—Gofei Mu meant, what if...

What if Mikhail learned that, in order to create a Paradise of order, he had actually tried to bring "Propagation" into the Penacony that Mikhail had spent his entire life building...

And the Swarm was the very culprit that had left Ternan stranded outside, unable to see Mikhail for the rest of his life, before ultimately dying in a foreign land...

Gofei Mu simply could not imagine what kind of sorrowful, disappointed look Mikhail would give him when he saw all this.

Just imagining that scene made Gofei Mu's mind tremble.

It was a punishment more terrifying than death!

"...I have to go." Mikhail