The Darkness in the Human Heart

"This feels bad..."

After entering Sonoro, Mo Hei hadn't been chased by the Cursed Spirits. But the sight of them lying on the ground as though on standby made him uneasy.

The Cursed Spirits were hideous. They looked like someone had torn different organs from human bodies and crudely mashed them together.

Worse, Mo Hei was highly sensitive to emotions. In this space saturated with negative energy, he felt like throwing up.

"Tch. This is awful!"

Despite his complaint, Mo Hei broke into a run.

Sonoro was constantly changing in response to the students' negative emotions. Staying in one place would be dangerous.

Yet for some reason, he still hadn't triggered Sonoro's defining trait.

It was supposed to reflect the side of a person they normally kept suppressed, but everything around him remained unchanged.

"Is it because I'm a Jujutsu Sorcerer?"

Mo Hei's thoughts were still muddled. He needed time to think.

Even so, he was in a far better position than Siglica.

Swish, swish, swish—

As Siglica sprinted, she swung her dagger with fluid precision without slowing down.

She carved a bloody path for herself.

But the farther she ran, the more she sensed that something was wrong around her.

The once-straight passage grew into a maze, and the monsters kept getting stronger.

"It's because of me..."

She knew Sonoro was absorbing her negative emotions...

Then she had nothing to fear!

"If I know what's causing it, I can fix it!"

Swish!

Siglica cut down another Cursed Spirit, holding fast to that belief.

That was right. If she was the source of this place's strange changes, all she had to do was stop letting her thoughts run wild.

Whoosh—

But despite her confident declaration, Cursed Spirits continued to emerge from the darkness around her.

Her fear hadn't diminished