Crack-
Above Happy Home, the black mist churned violently. Under Alice's trembling gaze, the familiar figure she could already faintly make out abruptly stopped just before he could arrive.
The rolling black mist spread in every direction, and the turbulent sky slowly settled back into calm.
Alice stood there, stunned.
It had been...
Interrupted...
At that moment, her tiny body jolted, and frantic urgency flickered in her eyes.
"Older Brother!"
She swiftly floated up, searching through the rolling fog in a panic, but the spatial tunnel connected to Happy Home had already vanished into nothingness.
At that moment, she felt an unprecedented unease.
Older Brother Lynn was in danger!
If it hadn't been an emergency, Older Brother Lynn would never have needed to use this teleportation mechanism. He had encountered a crisis he couldn't resolve, so he had activated the teleportation in desperation, but...
It had been blocked!
A powerful force had shattered Happy Home's spatial tunnel and dragged Older Brother Lynn back!
At that moment, she trembled violently.
Her heart went ice-cold.
Black lines of the Death Curse slowly crept across her angelic face.
She trembled.
The hatred she had always suppressed deep within her heart broke free the moment her emotions wavered, making her radiate an intensely concentrated aura of anger, cursed resentment, and death.
"Older Brother!"
She raised her head, trembling.
Without the slightest hesitation, her tiny body shot toward the source of that presence. But because of the Death-Binding Curse, the instant she touched Happy Home's boundary, the Earthbound Spirit's curse forced her back.
"Older Brother!!"
Her expression instantly twisted into a savage grimace.
The moment the curse forced her back, overwhelming hatred erupted from her entire body. She charged again, trying to break through the curse's restraints by force.
Crack, crack, crack-
Countless black lines