Book

"Me-?" Klein failed to understand what she meant. "What do you mean, that's me?"

Neph looked at Klein. Instead of speaking immediately, she recalled her separate conversations with Adam and Audrey.

She had already revealed the book's existence to both of them, so it was no longer entirely a secret. Klein also knew enough about prophecies and this supernatural world that, even if she told him the truth, he was unlikely to regard it as an ordinary storybook.

After all, this world had something as absurd as the "Author" Sequence.

Besides, even I can't be sure anymore whether I really transmigrated into a book-after all, I'm dealing with a Great Old One who toys with memories. Constructing a deception like this for me would be far too easy-

Neph sighed and glanced at Klein again, her fingers flexing unconsciously.

Even if I tell him, there's an art to how I say it- With that thought, Neph chose her words carefully. "Hmm.

"Klein, have you ever heard of-'Catification'?"

She pronounced the two characters in Chinese. Klein frowned, thought back for a few seconds, then shook his head.

"No.

"But I think I can work out what the word means-? Uh, with what you just said, I have a rough idea. I just don't quite understand-"

His voice trailed off, as though he was puzzled. "I suppose it's something like drawing a human version of something? I just don't understand-

"Neph, that shirt should be from before you transmigrated, right? Who drew that picture on it? And how did you know it was me?"

Neph looked at him without speaking. Klein fell silent as well. The room grew quiet, and only after a dozen or so seconds did Klein ask softly, "Do you usually read transmigration novels?"

The moment he asked, Neph