That night at Hughes Crematorium, Kallen had sat in a chair and motioned for his grandfather to tie him up, creating the illusion that he, too, was a victim so he could avoid trouble with the police.
Dis had picked up a knife and plunged it straight into Kallen's chest.
Although the knife had missed his vital organs, it had still left Kallen in the hospital for many days.
At first, Kallen had thought his grandfather believed this would make things more convincing and avert any further scrutiny or trouble.
When the hook-nosed man, clearly from a government Special Department, came to his hospital room to question him, Kallen thought his grandfather might have been trying to avoid their scrutiny. They were, after all, the regulators.
But after that night of slaughter,
Kallen suddenly realized something: his grandfather did not care about the police or the government's Special Department at all.
He had no need to put on an act,
so,
why had he stabbed him that night?
Kallen had simply never asked about this doubt, because he felt there was no need.
He could treat it as an elder holding a child at play, accidentally dropping the child and scraping a little skin. Could he really hold it against him?
Besides,
Kallen guessed that Dis might have intended for him to remain "well-behaved" in the Immerlis Family as an ordinary person, so naturally, he had needed to cover every trace.
But,
only at this moment
did the true purpose of that stab finally reveal itself!
Sometimes,
it was truly hard to understand, or even imagine,
that an old man had made such thoughtful, meticulous preparations for you,
simply because of that one word... "Grandpa."
Oak Cemetery,
inside the black barrier.
Dis withdrew his hand from the black hole