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Even at noon, Bansy was unusually sinister, with the cries of crows or other seabirds echoing from time to time.
An inconspicuous red light swiftly approached the ruined docks and the Dead City that had become a heap of ruins, entering the abandoned city of Bansy. This uninhabited island waited for the occasional small pirate ship whose crew had no fear of death and wanted to search the ruins for things left behind. Naturally, no one noticed this sudden arrival.
The red figure stretched its body, glanced around, and continued deeper into the city without a word.
As it walked, its outline kept changing. Medici's appearance gradually faded, and his signature red-and-black armor slowly vanished as well. It became a humanoid outline made of indistinct scarlet mist. Sometimes it had slightly curly red hair tied behind its head, sometimes it was the rear view of a tall, blond figure, and sometimes it was a majestic man wearing a crown.
These appearances changed without pause.
Finally, its face vanished, as though it had given up on choosing a definite appearance for itself. Only its eyes remained faintly visible, like a humanoid creature made of mist.
After the figure walked deeper into Bansy, rustling sounds began to rise continually from the surrounding ruins. Something like snakes slithered through the weeds and dead leaves, following at the red figure's feet, but leaving winding trails of blood-red marks. Finally, at a bend ahead, something hidden in the grass revealed its true appearance.
-It was a human head, with an intact spinal column extending behind it.
Heads that moved by dragging their spinal columns were, like headless walking corpses, an obscure local specialty of Bansy Harbor.
Clearly, this thing was using its spinal column to slither along the ground, leaving horrifying marks.
As it