This was—
Klein's eyes widened. He had never expected someone so important to be hiding right beside him.
He watched helplessly as Adam picked up the pen.
He could not even muster the thought of stopping him.
Yet a question arose in Klein's mind.
He glanced at Leonard, who was anxiously fussing around him, and realized that no one else present could perceive Adam.
In that case, why had he appeared before Klein?
As he pondered this, another hand reached out.
It extended past Adam's shoulder and hooked around his neck.
"Oh, Adam, have you come to say hello to your Uncle Zhou? What a polite boy." Morien appeared behind Adam's shoulder and threw an arm around his neck. Eyes covered his face, neck, and outstretched hand, constantly opening and closing.
At the sight of Morien, Klein instinctively met the gazes of a few of those eyes. His head suddenly felt as though a hammer had struck it, and he hurriedly shut his eyes, no longer daring to look directly at him.
A thought rose unbidden from the depths of his heart.
The Unseeable God—
Morien was not doing this deliberately.
Although the mental imprint within the potion had lost to him, he had ultimately only forced the Beyonder characteristic into himself, not absorbed it.
Until his next synchronization, he could not properly control the corruption leaking from it.
It was not that he had no way to deal with it, but there really was no need.
In effect, Morien now had his "incomplete mythical creature form" constantly active.
He might only have been a demigod, but he still was not someone a Sequence 8 like Klein could casually look at directly.
Adam, however, showed no reaction whatsoever to Morien keeping an arm hooked around his neck.
Klein's sudden closing