"I was sitting right beside you just now. Perhaps you didn't notice me, but I heard your conversation loud and clear.
"So I could roughly tell that you were guests the Queen had only recently invited. After all, everyone in Sorrow Market knew that the Queen only liked watching tragedies."
Following the voice, Tang Qi saw a green-skinned Tiefling approaching.
Tieflings were uncommon to begin with, and one with this sort of skin was utterly unheard of. Not to mention that his naturally curled ram horns had now become antlers. Yet Tang Qi could not recall even the faintest impression of him.
Puzzled, he asked, "You weren't sitting beside us, were you?"
"My apologies. There were simply too many people in the theater, and at times like that, I always felt too embarrassed to reveal my true appearance. But out of courtesy when striking up a conversation, I had no choice but to stand before you in my true form."
As the Tiefling spoke, the color on his body suddenly faded and blended into grayish white. His features blurred with it, until only two round yellow eyes like eggs remained exposed before them. At last, even his facial features twisted into those of an orc.
That was not a common sight even in Ebony Forest, but it let Tang Qi identify his seat instead. "The one in the twelfth row to our front left?"
"Yes."
"So you're a Doppelganger?"
Remembering how the other party had changed his appearance just now, exactly like the Doppelganger mage they had encountered in Deepwell, Tang Qi could not help saying, "So green-skinned Tieflings really do exist in this world."
Doppelgangers could only shapeshift, imitating creatures they had once seen.
"Of course. Though there is only one of me."
Frankness was the norm in Ebony