Bzzz-
In an instant, his eyes went blank.
His body stiffened on the spot, frozen as though he had turned to stone.
"That... that's..."
On the head of the smaller Headhunter sat a human boy, cross-legged, playing cat's cradle with a smile as he demonstrated it to a curious tentacle holding an eyeball in front of him.
He looked like a friendly older boy from next door, trying every odd trick he could think of to win over a curious little girl from the family across the way.
But that wasn't the point!!
He recognized the boy's face almost at first glance.
"My apprentice?!"
Blood Saw instantly let out a shocked roar.
Madam Doll: "???"
Blood Saw: (꒪Д꒪)ノ
Impossible!
My old eyes must be playing tricks on me!
Yes, I must be seeing things because I'm so worried.
After all, how could that obedient little apprentice of mine possibly be riding a Headhunter around?
Yes!
It must be a hallucination!
If my apprentice really had that kind of ability, he'd already be doing whatever he pleased in the Dark World!
He rubbed his eyes hard, then murmured as he stretched out a hand, bit his finger, and began drawing a tiny magic circle on the ground.
"Maybe I should contact him first? If he's not dead, he should be able to receive the message I send..."
As though trying to prove something.
He wrote a few words on the tiny magic circle.
[My apprentice, are you still alive?]
Once he finished writing.
He muttered an incantation, a bloody light flashed in his eyes, and he pressed his hand onto the magic circle.
Almost at that very same moment.
Lynn, who was sitting on Xiao Xiao's head and smiling as he demonstrated cat's cradle techniques, suddenly froze. Then he immediately