After Byron returned, he noticed that the atmosphere in the house was a little strange.
Thor sat with his eyes closed on the enormous pink sofa.
Black vines covered the entire room, leaving barely enough space to set foot.
Four inactive Red Worms drifted through the room, darting back and forth along the boundary between sunlight and shadow.
"What happened?" Byron's first reaction was to close the door.
"There's something I want to ask you." Thor opened his eyes and sat upright on the soft sofa. "Ask the Half-Elf."
Seeing how serious Thor looked, Byron nodded and sat in the chair opposite him.
"Go ahead."
"Agu went to see Fiona, but..." Thor thought of Agu's expression when he returned, as lifeless as a corpse, and of his Consciousness Entity struggling like a fly trapped in a spiderweb.
Thor didn't need to hear more to understand Agu's pain.
That bastard Murich had done it on purpose!
He had deliberately given Agu hope, then deliberately killed the fake Fiona right in front of him. And when Agu was at his most agitated, he had casually told him that it had all been a lie, and that the real Fiona had died a horrible death at the hands of a Half-Elf shortly after Agu left.
From Murich's description, that Half-Elf was very likely the one inside Byron.
Making a Half-Elf who had theoretically vanished from the world Agu's enemy meant that Agu would never have a chance to avenge himself in this life.
Thinking about it carefully, Murich had nothing to gain from doing this. Even if he hadn't ultimately hurt Agu, he couldn't really be considered the enemy who had killed Agu's daughter. But after tormenting Agu like this, he had become utterly despicable in Thor's eyes.
Agu had forced himself to