“Leiu!”Once the explosive sounds of the battle quietened down, Zeno and Xavier ran back.“I’m fine.”“Are you sure? You don’t look to-”Zeno stopped once she saw him stand up and casually pick up the greatsword.“He escaped but not after I impaled him.”“...”Zeno kept giving him a strange look as he checked his body and did some stretching to ensure that there was no lingering pain.Inos’ curses were truly overpowered. Their healing and defensive capabilities allowed Leiu to recover in just a couple of minutes.“Who was that?”Anne Dravenham, who hadn’t been hit by the monk, spoke up. She was standing a bit close to the three, her eyes scanning the ruined state of the road and its vicinity.“A Player.” Responded Xavier, though he didn’t deign to give any explanation.“He called you the Nameless Knight.”“So you were eavesdropping?”-Leiu“...”Anne didn’t respond, she looked both surprised and curious. For her, and many others, the terms Nameless Knight and Dark Knight weren’t synony

Due to the unexpected and inexplicable experience last night, Leiu couldn’t sleep. Still, the very concept of exhaustion seemed inconsistent with his current borrowed body. He suspected that it was an after-effect of the Lost Virtues, especially after hearing Inos’ warning.An extreme sense of urgency dwelled within Leiu, so much so that he voiced no complaint when he boarded the carriage and saw Anne Dravenham there.The young vampire followed him with her eyes, seemingly prepared to talk back in case he said anything. However, much to her and Zeno’s surprise, Leiu sat down in silence. He spared Anne only a quick glance before gloomily looking out of the window.“Everything alright, Leiu?”Zeno had prepared arguments for Anne’s presence, so Leiu’s complete lack of reaction caught her off-guard.“Not really. I don’t have much time left…” He gave a momentary look to Anne before adding, “My body is soon about to be ready. I don’t know what it’ll happen if I’m not around when it happens.

“Make yourselves comfortable!”Leiu and Anne were led to the surface, inside a cozy small home. Other homeless people were around, but Fairti and Seo had a relatively big room to themselves.There was a board with all types of names and locations, a bunch of random stuff scattered around, and a bed with disorderly sheets on top of it.“Isn’t it wrong to bring us to your personal quarters?”In response to her remark, Leiu clicked his tongue, “Says the one who jumped at me naked!”“It’s fine! Leiu is like fam-.. Wait what?” Fairti, flabbergasted, looked between Leiu and Anne.In the end, as if he came up with his own conclusion, he chuckled,“I should’ve known a cougar would get her claws on you! You can’t stay single forever.”“Fairti!”“What?”“Please excuse him.”“I don’t get what he means by cougar.”Anne merely shrugged while Leiu facepalmed himself.“Anyway, can you tell us what happened?”-SeoLeiu proceeded to recount what followed his battle with the Gods. Of course, he omitted

When Leiu regained consciousness, he found himself in a surprisingly unexpected place.The room was spacious, gloomily-dark but rich in Darkness energy.‘The Eternal Abyss Manor.’It has been so long since he was here. He suspended his disbelief and looked around, quickly spotting another person.“I made it so that the next Night Adjudicator would be pulled here once the time comes.”The person who spoke was a man, one with a completely unfamiliar face to Leiu.He certainly wasn’t Tenebris, the first Dark Knight.“I am Alex Banxok, the Night Adjudicator and the one who created the Eternal Abyss Manor.”Alex didn’t look straight at Leiu. In fact, he didn’t seem to actually be there, at least not like Tenebris. He wasn’t a residual consciousness or the remnant of a soul.This seemed to just be a message to his successor.“If you’re hearing this then it means you the Third Red Moon is upon Weiji once more. When it is at its brightest, colouring the sky blood-red, the Hell Gate will open.

EarthUSAEstelle Sigreen was sitting next to a medical bed, her teary eyes on her daughter.Saly was sleeping, though her body was linked to two or three machines. They monitored her condition and sustained her life, but they didn’t serve as a permanent treatment for her.It happened shortly after her kidnapping by the ISB. Saly became ill, but her ailment was unknown, possibly even alien.Parts of her body started turning into brown and painful scales. Estelle was certain that the ISB had done something to her before they saved her, but that wasn’t important right now.She didn’t want revenge, she just wanted her daughter to be cured and lead a normal and happy life.Although the ISB never bothered her again, Estelle remained ever-vigilant since the day, keeping Saly by her side at all times.Except on very rare occasions, and for brief periods of times, she detached herself from her role as the Genesis Knight or anything that had to do with Hell Gate.Furthermore, with Saly getting