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"His soul disappeared."
"Whose hands did it fall into? I can't see clearly. Was it the Evernight Goddess?"
"He wasn't the only backup. Everyone in the cocoons is a contingency left by the Celestial Worthy. Now that he's dead, when will the next person descend?"
Edward returned home in a good mood. It was only just past half past seven, but the sky was already completely dark. Amon was fiddling with something in the kitchen.
The owl, dozing with one eye open, faithfully relayed everything it had seen to the Devil. He saw that in the half hour since he had left, Amon had committed such unreasonable acts as "steaming chicken legs in a steamer," "making pork and cabbage dumplings with strawberry-chocolate wrappers," "putting bread dough in a microwave," and "putting rice cakes in an oven." Through these acts, which simultaneously blasphemed Eastern and Western culinary cultures, he was attempting to make himself an edible dinner... Where had the microwave come from?
After the Outer Deity's gaze swept over him, Amon took a Storm Pathway Sealed Artifact out of the makeshift microwave.
"I read a guide to manufacturing electrical appliances."
"Then I discovered that 'microwaves' and 'electromagnetic waves' were essentially finely controlled electric currents, so I gave it a try."
Under the scrutiny of four eyes, he took out the bread dough in the bowl. Heated terribly unevenly, the bread was half wet and half dry. Too many bubbles and insufficient heat had also given it an awful, spongelike structure, and it climbed the sides of the bowl like a yellow bacterial colony. Edward frowned at this excessively creative bread shape, but Amon was quite interested as he put the Sealed Artifact and bread dough back into the makeshift microwave to continue heating them.
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