While Aventurine was revealing to Stelle the connection between Acheron and Duke Inferno's gruesome death, Argenti sat in a corner of the guest accommodation lobby at The Reverie in reality. The handsome Knight of Beauty was steadfastly carrying out his mission.
Following Jiang Yu's instructions before he departed for the Dreamscape, Argenti had found Robin's hotel room and kept watch for anyone who might approach it. So far, he had not spotted anyone suspicious.
Suddenly, Argenti remembered something and took out a grayish-black, viscous, writhing lump. It looked like some creature formed from accumulated ashes, or perhaps something else.
This rather bizarre-looking mass was the Duke Inferno Afrit whom Aventurine had mentioned. What a wretched state to have died in-or perhaps he was not quite dead yet.
Argenti found it difficult to assess this mass of substance... this creature in his hand. After all, when he arrived at the Ever-Flame Mansion, not even a scrap of Duke Inferno had remained. The lump in his hand had been dug out by a brother of the Knight Group using some kind of energy that had been in surplus at the time.
Argenti still remembered his previous mission: to find a Flame Demon like Afrit. Little Fish seemed to have some use for him.
Yet when he reunited with Little Fish after arriving on Penacony, he had forgotten about it. Only now did he belatedly remember.
I wonder whether Little Fish has any way to restore this fellow...
Soon, Argenti put the poor fellow away again.
In any case, once Little Fish returns, I'll show him this thing first.
Meanwhile, in a corridor of The Reverie in the Dreamscape.
The Purple Tyrannosaurus was sprinting at full speed. Jiang Yu had extended his perception and already locked onto March 7th's location. Now he was