Do I Look Like a God?

As soon as Writer spoke, everyone in the connection fell silent.

Indeed, the difference between coherent speech and howling was obvious. Once they noticed it, it was easy to tell.

French Fries: "You mean she can't speak right now and can only howl?"

Writer: "I can only say it looks that way."

French Fries: "How could this happen?"

French Fries: "What exactly happened? What's Scepter's condition right now?"

If it had been the old Zoe, she probably would have been completely in the dark about this.

But Zoe had now touched upon transcendence. Contact with the Sea of Unconsciousness itself granted much knowledge, and while in Castel, with Theus's help, the transcendents of Moth Chasing Flame had also shared some basic knowledge of transcendence with her.

Writer: "She may be being tortured, or she may have fallen into madness."

French Fries: "What? Scepter has gone mad?!"

Writer: "She's only in a state of madness right now. That doesn't mean it will last forever. Madness is divided into temporary madness, intermittent madness, and permanent madness. Temporary madness gradually eases over time until the person recovers. Cas—ugh, certain conditions that cause madness can make someone fall into temporary madness."

Theus nodded. Castel Syndrome did indeed make people go mad easily, but generally speaking, a night in a hospital bed was enough to cure it, with no lasting aftereffects.

Writer: "If someone suffers multiple shocks in a short period of time, or encounters another source of pollution while temporarily mad, they will contract intermittent madness. It resembles temporary madness and they may recover, but they can go mad again at any time. They cannot recover on their own; only medicine or a professional therapist has a chance of curing them."

Captain: "A chance? So it might not be curable?"

Writer: "Yes. Intermittent madness