"Ah, I thought you were going to die. I'd nearly worked myself into the right mood, and even planned out how to hold your corpse to convey the full dramatic force of my grief. Then I came in and saw you. Tsk, I really am a little disappointed."
Kallen had told Philomina to go outside and keep all the reinforcements out, whether they belonged to the Order God Church or the Cavern Order God Church. But there was clearly one person she could not stop-or rather, would never try to stop.
Neo walked up to Kallen, crouched down, looked at his current state, and said with a smile:
"Yes, that's the feeling. A flagging soul and listless spirits. Doesn't it feel awful? Don't you want to rest? Don't you want to punch me in the face and make me stop spouting this nonsense?"
"You'll get injured again someday, too."
"Tch, as if you were ever so thoughtful and attentive when I was injured.
"I'd just finished talking to Lainos and come out of the embassy's secret chamber when I sensed the signal you sent into the sky. On my way over, I was genuinely worried that skeleton would kill you."
Neo reached out and pinched the motionless bronze skeleton standing nearby.
"But you survived after all. Wasn't this skeleton supposed to be very powerful? You actually managed to kill it in the end. How did you do it? I thought this whole area would at least be flattened."
"She isn't dead."
"She?" Neo caught the key point, then reached out to feel the skeleton's pelvis. "This is a male skeleton."
Then Neo gently twisted his neck and continued, "A puppet doppelganger?"
Kallen nodded. "Yes, that's right."
Then Kallen gave him a brief account of what had happened.
Afterward, Kallen asked