After a long silence…0

"To think you'd come up with something like that." The crow stared at me with something like pride and nodded. "Are you sure that idea was really yours? You’ve got quite the head on your shoulders when it comes to saving that girl."0

A strange sense of unease crept in. Was it just my imagination? Isaac’s tone was full of satisfaction, yet underneath, there was a faint trace of discomfort, even displeasure. If I hadn’t been stabbed in the back by him twice in my first life, I probably wouldn’t have noticed it at all.0

I examined the root of my unease. What exactly was wrong here? Maybe he didn’t like the fact that I was choosing to prioritize saving Rubia over maximizing my own strength. Maybe he was irritated that I wasn’t focusing on maintaining the front and offering up human blood to Malphas.0

Or perhaps, he just wanted to keep watching humans destroy each other for as long as possible. Whatever his twisted reasoning, all that mattered was that he moved according to my plan.1

"It won’t be easy. Many powers are involved in maintaining the front. The moment you start pushing the...0