"No!" the little girl screamed. "Kael, save yourself!"
Vander's shriek of rage was also heard as he tried to claw and squeeze the life out of Kael, whose grin remained without a flinch.
The screams were all muffled and faded in Kael's ears. At that moment, he was deep in thought. The first card the devil had guessed was:
'I am surrounded by idiots.'
It was a familiar phrase, Kael was very fond of it. In fact, he always said it when he was tired of people and had also said it at the first path when he'd met Egor.
The second card had been: 'The devil's hand is never idle.' Kael hadn't thought anything about it until the third.
'You embrace power at any cost, and if it consumes you, so be it.'
That was what happened to Stillwort. He'd died trying to take everything until it consumed him in the end.
Then Julia, who was now a dummy to Gezel, she gave him her whole self, hands, legs, everything, to serve her new master.
'Lend me your ear. Well... lend me your arms and legs too.'
