Azik held her carefully. "She's all right... for now."
"What brought you here?"
"I sensed a familiar fluctuation of power, mixed with a kind of... a feeling of a blood connection to me, so I came to take a look."
"A blood connection?" Edward froze, then asked in surprise,
"Do you mean Priscilla is your descendant?"
Azik shook his head. "I... am not quite sure. You know I've lost my memories of the past. Do you know much about this child?"
"Well, I only know that her mother came from West Balam. Nothing else. But I know her father, Mr. Steven Green, a dentist in Tingen."
"I see. I'll go and ask him about it."
Edward glanced at Priscilla and asked hesitantly, "Just now, did Death really resurrect in her?"
"No. If I'd been a few minutes later, this child would have lost control and become a monster." Mr. Azik looked intently at Edward. "Thank you for helping buy some time."
A cold wind swept past, and an enormous humanoid skeleton abruptly appeared. The monster stood a full four meters tall, black flames burning in its eye sockets. Its bones were illusory and hazy, and it held a slip of paper.
Azik took the slip and opened it. His expression shifted slightly. "Klein is in danger."
Half a minute later.
The two arrived at the Blackthorn Security Company.
Inside the ruined Blackthorn Security Company, scorch marks and broken objects were everywhere, but there was not a sound. It was like a tomb.
Where the company's reception hall had once stood was now a bottomless abyss. Edward wondered how Klein, Dunn, and the others could have caused such terrifying destruction with their strength.
Holding Priscilla, Azik swept his brown eyes rapidly across the scene before they settled on Klein, who had