Only then did Zatanna force herself to calm down, panting heavily.
If this was not a dream, then the one suffering in the flames not far away was her father's true soul, wasn't it?
Over the years, she had asked Zha Kang to take her through every major Hell and Underworld in search of her father's soul, but every demon king had claimed never to have seen Great Mage Zatara.
She had always believed that some demons were lying, or that her father had already passed through the cycle of death.
But the Deadman in Red Tights and the Goddess behind him had also told Zatanna that Giovanni had not reincarnated. Even Death itself did not know where his soul had gone.
A mystery that had lasted more than a decade finally had an answer today. Her father's soul had been in the Upside-Down Man's grasp all along, hidden within its dimension.
Wait, the Upside-Down Man had come from beyond the Source Wall. Did that mean her father's soul had been outside the Source Wall when he died?
For a moment, her thoughts were like the sea during a typhoon, surging without rest. Fear of the unknown seemed to seize her heart and viciously knead it.
Though the Upside-Down Man had no eyes, nothing could escape its perception within its own dimension.
Its tongue flicked like a whip as it pulled a little red-and-black Doll from its pants pocket and laughed. "That's right. Everything you thought is right. Giovanni's soul fell into my hands solely because he tried to oppose me back then."
Then the Upside-Down Man revealed a secret. It turned out that ten years ago, it had nearly entered the multiverse.
Though it did not know what had happened within the multiverse at the time, it seemed as