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Tommy realized he definitely couldn't outdo her. Once the "Serpent's Offspring" ritual was over, his Path potential would be drained away.

Thus, after plotting, he completed a murder by studying the ritual. He cursed his sister with zoophilia, had her mate with a bull, and ensured she was accidentally discovered by others. She chose suicide afterward.

But in reality, she failed to kill herself—Tommy used another woman's corpse to disguise as her body. He raped and sacrificed "Rowetta" along with his two younger brothers to summon the Maze Demon.

His father didn't realize this was Tommy's doing, so he bestowed the Lohar name upon him. To prevent his father from realizing later, Tommy dragged him into the labyrinth to die of starvation.

The Supervisory Bureau suspected him at the time, but they couldn't find any evidence whatsoever.

Because their bodies were either in the Maze Demon's labyrinth, or they'd melted after stepping into the Dream Realm. Their bodies weren't in the Material Realm at all, nor did they die there.

Subsequently, the then sixteen-year-old Tommy cleverly realized he needed to perfect the chain of evidence to clear himself of suspicion.

So he staged the theft of family property by his two younger brothers, their purchase of boat tickets, and he falsified evidence that they had killed their older siblings and seriously injured him. After Tommy was willing to take six bullets to his body, the disappearance of his two brothers seemed very plausible.

As for the killed older brother and sister—that was, of course, his own doing.

He didn't think he did anything wrong.

The Serpent's Offspring ritual allowed and even encouraged mutual slaughter. What it didn't allow was the law of Avalon. So, he both completed the ritual and evaded the law.

As for the murder—

He wasn't even human after all. Tommy was quite calm about it.

He felt no discomfort at his first killing, and even experienced excitement and thrill—he comforted himself with the thought: since those people considered him a giant, there was no problem with him killing them.

It was because of this thrill that he would sometimes roam the streets of Lohar District at night, hunting down those daring to wander the streets of Lohar District after dark, turning them into ritual materials... he would then curse to death those he wanted to kill during the day. He stopped wandering once he grew taller than the common height of humans.

He was almost discovered once but thankfully, Jack the Ripper emerged soon after, generously taking the blame for his crimes.

Later, Tommy caught the attention of the Noble Red Society.

Speaking of the Noble Red...

Tommy suddenly furrowed his brows.

...Come to think of it, did the Supervisory Bureau prepare any curse countermeasures for me?

If I betrayed the Noble Red, they would certainly come to curse me to death. It would be easy for them to get hold of my hair, and they could curse me to death even without knowing my whereabouts.

So, my list of trade terms will have to include "engaging a Priest for protection." If I'm cursed, I need them to dispel it promptly... from this perspective, maybe it's better to ask for a female Priest.

And just then, he suddenly heard faint footsteps.

This caused his stagnant thoughts to spring to life in an instant.

A second person appeared in the small dark room, and his initial reaction was joy—but he immediately became alert.

Why didn't the person turn on the lights?

Why did they approach silently without speaking a word?

Consequently, Tommy kept his mouth shut too, rolled over to sit up, and tensed the muscles in his body. Although he couldn't use his Path power, his physique was still very healthy. Having surrendered in a timely manner, he wasn't injured. Even if someone sprayed him with bullets, he could survive by catching them with his strong giant's muscles.

"—Tommy Lohar, I presume."

A deep, husky voice rang out, "Is that so?"

"...It's me," Tommy answered in a grave tone. "Who are you?"

The next moment, Tommy saw a glint of Red.

That was the ring he recognized, "Noble Red."

Have they come to save me?

...No, that's not right.

"You're here to kill me, aren't you?" Tommy affirmed, sitting on the bed. "You are Aleister—what are you exactly? If you're going to kill me, at least let me hear your real voice."

After a brief silence, a soft and syrupy female voice emerged: "Yes, I'm here to kill you.
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"—Because you betrayed the Noble Red."

As her words fell, Tommy's entire body was penetrated by the Shadow Demon. But he didn't scream in agony because his neck was being constricted by something.

In that moment, he wrote on the bed with his own blood: "Aleister," "woman," "Noble Red."

—I'm dead, but you won't get off easily.

Tommy thought bitterly.