By the time he left the palace, Noah's ears were swollen red, just like the huge caved fist implanted in his stomach, courtesy of his dear friend.
'Well, I kind of deserved it for not letting him know about the plan. Yet I would do the same thing again to make sure what I had planned comes to fruition. Now that I don't have the same power of my previous life, dealing with the cult has become a thousand times more difficult than it would have been.' Just as Noah was leaving the castle, he heard some whispers among the workers that left him speechless as well.
"Did you hear? Someone heard that the Emperor was talking to himself in his quarters."
"I heard the Emperor was being haunted by the ghost of a dissatisfied woman."
"Is that true? Now that you say it, the Emperor sent away the guards when they tried to help him."
"Wait… did any of you ever think that he was simply talking to someone?"
