"Why are you looking at me so strangely?"
As Tang Qi's stare grew increasingly strange, one eyebrow higher than the other and one eye wider than the other, Butcher felt his wool stand on end.
"So you don't plan to stay here either?" Tang Qi asked tentatively.
"Huh? Who'd want to stay with this pack of wolves that never warm up to you? That was then, this is now!"
"What do you want to do now?"
"Me? Whatever happens, I need to turn back first, don't I? I don't want to spend forever in this woolly body—I'm a dragonborn, not a sheepborn!"
"You're not so bad this way, actually."
Despite saying that, Tang Qi looked at the Journal in his hand. The writing still hadn't faded, confirming his suspicion, yet leaving him unsure how to face it.
If Butcher really did use source essence to regain his original form, shedding his sheep's exterior to reveal his true red dragon body, what attitude would he take then?
From what Tang Qi remembered, after taking red dragon form, he had destroyed the Obelisk Tower and taken the source essence inside—
Tang Qi had no choice but to speculate from a more conspiratorial angle.
If, after successfully becoming a dragon, Spitfire had still coveted source essence for some purpose and attacked the various Obelisk Towers, why would he then mingle with adventurers transformed into sheep?
Wasn't the timing too tight?
Or, after realizing the source essence wasn't enough to meet his needs, had he deliberately transformed into a sheep and infiltrated the adventurers, trying to get close to House Hal and produce more source essence for himself by swapping out the medium?
That fit Spitfire's motives, and it also explained why he was the only sheep leading the flock with a map of