Medici, who was responsible for holding Anthony back, disengaged and gestured invitingly. "Let's call a two-minute truce. Hurry up and help 'Headless.'"
"..."
Anthony frowned at him, countless questions filling his mind, but he knew he could not afford to delay. He quickly turned into darkness and moved to intercept the hurricane.
The rag doll Reinette had become opened her mouth toward the cyclops, letting out a soul-wounding scream in an attempt to interrupt his attack-but after spending so long in his mythical creature form, Ince Zangwill had gradually lost his reason.
Only one thought remained in his mind: to destroy everything he saw.
Meanwhile, Klein, who was hiding inside the church, quickly took four steps counterclockwise and entered Above the Gray Fog. He picked up a silver-gray charm and abruptly infused it with spirituality, igniting a dark, shadowy glow.
Klein sprang to his feet, pulled his shoulder back, and flung his right arm forward.
"Calamity!"
The dark glow released by the Calamity Charm mingled with a small amount of power drawn from Above the Gray Fog. It was thrown into the scene visible deep within the gray fog, toward the cyclops Ince Zangwill had become.
Having done this, Klein immediately left Above the Gray Fog and returned to reality, once again controlling his Qonas marionette to attack the cyclops-
He failed to notice a faint stream of grayish-white mist flowing like water into the Traveler marionette beside him. The marionette's originally dull, vacant eyes suddenly came alive.
He flexed his limbs, leaped outside the church, and hovered invisibly in midair. Staring down at the increasingly frenzied cyclops, ancient gears turned counterclockwise in his eyes. "Degradation."
Almost simultaneously, the giant, who had just punched the enormous rag doll away, abruptly froze. His body trembled, then rapidly shrank, leaving his mythical