"..."
A brief silence.
Six black dots streaked across the sky above Lynn and Raven.
Lynn calmly adjusted something in midair, spread his hands, and smiled. "See? It didn't strike me, did it? I told you I wasn't lying. How accurate."
Raven: "..."
A few minutes later, Raven slowly pushed open the door and stepped outside.
At that moment, Night Doctors wearing beaked masks waited outside, one after another, their gazes all fixed on Raven.
Clearly.
During the time Lynn had been unconscious.
The main force of Night Doctors brought by the Executor and the others had all arrived in Silent Town.
"Commander Raven, how did it go?" a Night Doctor asked.
Raven narrowed his eyes and said hoarsely, "The curse seems to have been removed, and he told me about his origins. Whether he was telling the truth remains to be investigated, but for now, at least, he barely qualifies as a normal person."
He had added that last sentence with considerable difficulty.
A Night Doctor frowned, his eyes flickering. "Commander, I don't think we can rule out the possibility that he's a spy sent by those Plague Doctor lunatics. I've already heard about what happened yesterday."
"With those terrifying abilities to inflict diseases and curses, I don't think calling him the leader of the Plague Doctors would even be an exaggeration."
The surrounding Night Doctors all nodded, their eyes filled with distrust.
An ability to inflict diseases that ignored all measures against disease and curses was simply too frightening.
Raven said nothing. He stood there with narrowed eyes.
Once again, he remembered the moment he had collapsed from exhaustion yesterday...
"Observe him for a few days first. Keep his movements under strict surveillance."
Speaking hoarsely, he pushed through the crowd and walked ahead.
"I need to go