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Looking around the garden, Amir frowned. The luxurious mansion, shrouded in violet mist, made it clear where they were.
Is this the day my family was annihilated by the Dream Demon?
He was a child who knew nothing back then. And because of that—because he mistook the Dream Demon for a welcome guest and guided her inside—everyone in the mansion had been tragically slaughtered all at once.
His memories of that day caused him pain even now, even after getting his revenge by killing the Dream Demon. After all, no matter how complete his vengeance had been, his dead family and servants would never return.
“Amir…” Sensing Amir’s pain, Zayed’s voice sagged with regret. “I’ve told you countless times, but what happened that day wasn’t—”
“My fault. I know that, so don’t worry.”
That day, even if Amir hadn’t guided her inside, the Dream Demon would have entered regardless: an unavoidable catastrophe. Digging into those memories would only wound him further.
“Let’s head inside first.”
Having steeled his heart, Amir headed toward the mansion and entered through the back door.
Step. Step.
Just like outside, the corridors inside were thick with mist and dreamlike butterflies fluttering through the air. Scattered across the floor were abandoned belongings and scraps of clothing—relics left behind by those who had dissipated at the Dream Demon’s hands.
“…”
It felt like a nightmare that perfectly recreated that day’s massacre. Experiencing the grotesqueness of it all, Amir’s expression hardened—
“What an unbearably tiresome sight.”
The Frost Dog revealed himself beyond the glass windows lining the corridor.
“Decades have passed. You’d think the memory would’ve faded by now… yet I still remember clearly who disappeared and where,” the Frost Dog muttered to himself as he walked down the corridor beyond the glass.
Amir paused, hesitating as he looked at the Frost Dog, who looked like a strange reflection, like staring at a mirror...
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