"What?"
"He was persuaded?"
"That Dark Eater is leaving the Dark Eater Alliance to become 2567's follower?!"
Lying in his hospital bed, Garcia listened to the research assistant's account and felt as though he were hearing a fairy tale. His eyes widened involuntarily, filled with disbelief.
"Yes."
"Hard as it is to believe, that Dark Eater really is leaving the Dark Eater Alliance. We just confirmed the news."
The research assistant nodded firmly.
He understood Garcia's shock and disbelief perfectly.
After all, he had reacted the same way not long ago.
His reaction had even been several times stronger.
As researchers at the Duyil Research Institute, they were no strangers to the Dark Eaters. They knew just how terrifying those people were after abandoning all dignity, honor, and even humanity. In a fight, it usually took two or three people of the same level to subdue one of them. Yet now, a genuine Dark Eater had been persuaded by nothing more than a few words. Had they not confirmed it themselves, they would have dismissed it as pure fantasy.
Silence fell over the ward.
It took Garcia quite a while to recover.
"What about the two people I assigned to assist 2567?"
"Where are they?"
Garcia pressed him.
"They were unfortunately caught in 2567's attack. They never even had a chance to identify themselves."
The research assistant spoke cautiously.
He knew the fourth-year student's plan: help the freshman representative when he faced his "most difficult situation." Not only would they win his goodwill, they might even recruit him through it, despite having engineered that "most difficult situation" themselves.
But if they succeeded, who would care about any of that?
However...
They had failed.
More importantly, the two people sent to rescue him had lost their lives as well.
They had