After muttering to himself for a few moments, Amon reached out and pinched the upper and lower edges of his crystal monocle. Streams of "flowing light" immediately converged from all directions and entered his body.
"Found you!"
The corners of Amon's lips gradually curled up. The next moment, using the connection, he instantly appeared inside a warehouse in the Factory Borough, just as Trissy had crawled out of a vanity mirror in that same warehouse.
Upon seeing the blonde girl holding a parasol, she froze for a moment before unhesitatingly entering a state of "Invisibility" and releasing a mysticism-domain "Plague."
However, although Trissy was also a Demigod, such methods were useless against Amon. He merely pointed lightly with his parasol, and not only did Trissy's "Invisibility" abruptly vanish, but those "Plagues" also returned to her body, instantly infecting her with a severe illness.
"Ah!" At that moment, the "Old Man" parasitizing her mind sighed and transformed into a transparent little worm with twelve segments, voluntarily flying into the blonde girl's hand.
At the same time, Trissy's body was pushed by an invisible force, sending her flying backward toward the warehouse doors. As though she had no physical form, she passed through them and arrived above the surface of the Tussock River.
"Old Man..." Trissy turned back toward the warehouse with a complicated expression. By then, she had already guessed that the blonde girl was the enemy the Old Man had always been avoiding.
Though she was somewhat moved by what the Old Man had done, Trissy was, after all, a Demoness accustomed to life and death. She had no intention of turning back to save him, as that was not an existence she could afford to provoke.
Thus, Trissy unhesitatingly plunged into the icy river water and rapidly fled using