On a sunny afternoon, Ademos sat quietly in the study overlooking the courtyard as usual, flipping through a recently popular collection of poetry.
The old man had shed the heavy ceremonial robes he usually wore for appearances, dressed only in a simple white shirt.
With the Lamenter gone, Ademos, as the foremost of the Seven Virtues, naturally no longer needed to exhaust himself forming alliances as he had before.
But...
"I always feel like I've overlooked something." Ademos let out a long sigh and shut the poetry collection heavily.
As a dragon who had helped Chen Xi within the passage of time, Ademos had naturally developed the same symptoms as Gu Yu.
At first, the old dragon had assumed his precognitive abilities had taken effect again. He tinkered with them for several days, yet still received no response.
The feeling was like a broken toothpick lodged in his flesh, leaving Ademos restless and uneasy.
"Is it good?"
A gentle voice came from before him. Ademos looked up and only then noticed that a black-haired girl, whose attire was clearly at odds with the Black Moon Eastern Kingdom, had somehow seated herself before his desk, leafing through the poetry collection he had just put down.
Unexpectedly, for some reason, Ademos felt neither vigilance nor hostility toward the girl. Instead, he answered her question amicably.
"It's fairly good, but overall, it's too impetuous. It gives me the feeling of being flashy but insubstantial."
"Mm, I think so too." Chen Xi nodded in wholehearted agreement.
Then, illusory chains of Dominion shot from the girl's fingertips with lightning speed, piercing straight through where Ademos's heart was.
With Gu Yu as a precedent, Chen Xi simply bundled the reason she and Lin Yue had been able to defeat the Lamenter into the explanation as well,