"Yeah, that's right. You are, after all, a spirit, aren't you?" I wasn't entirely sure, because Han Yun didn't show the intense negative emotions and behavioral patterns of an ordinary spirit.
He had killed people, abducted children, and even considered abducting adults. But his behavior was more like that of an ordinary child. His sense of good and evil was vague, and his motives were simple: he did things purely because he felt like it.
Killing wasn't something he enjoyed.
But now that I thought about it, the Han Yun standing before me was different in personality from the one Greenleaf and the others had first encountered.
The Han Yun in the files was more well-behaved, like a shy, introverted boy. He wasn't exactly bashful or afraid of strangers, but he wasn't so lively, either. When he interacted with Greenleaf, he always seemed distant. He listened and was reasonable. His personality was much colder.
But the Han Yun in front of me wasn't like that. He was rather flamboyant, lively, rational, confident, and clever. He was like an adult pretending to be a child. He had clearly grown up, yet still played the role of a child, deliberately acting childish and willful.
I thought of Mingsite for the same reason. She had undergone a similar change.
The Grim Reaper with a scythe and a skull for a face had completely refused to communicate with me. In the form that came afterward, there was a more human side to her. She was also a big shot among the living, and she looked at people with an air of superiority. Even after becoming Mingsite, she had maintained that attitude, but it was no longer the godlike arrogance she'd had before. It was the arrogance of a person.
Neither of them was an