The Gentleman at the End-Chapter 740 - 738: Reunion

Crack!

A burst of shattering sounds echoed through Duke Castle, accompanied by a rise in ambient temperature.

Golden Mask rushed to the scene immediately, only to find William, wearing a pure silver monocle, completely smashed into the wall, his face partially scorched by the Evil Sun.

Lying in the bed was a thoroughly transformed Evil Sun Eye Corpse.

1. Its face burnt and covered with scorch marks, each eye acting as a node burning with flames.

2. While the left side of the body maintained human form, the right side had mutated, sprouting six arms of various lengths and thicknesses. Scorch marks covered these arms, each of which grasped a metal lamp torn from beside the bed.

3. The metal lamp, grasped by six hands, also changed, the scorch marks spreading over it as it underwent a curse of "Forced Disease," or was affected by some kind of magic.

The disease of inanimate objects was relatively slow and had a low success rate, yet, in an instant, the lamp had transformed into a Pathological Weapon.

The lampshade disappeared,

and the original bulb exploded alongside,

replaced by curse fireworks burning atop the lamp stand,

combined with the six diverse structured arms, not belonging to the same person, it felt like thousands were raising torches, intending to dispel the darkness of the world.

"Evil Sun Carrier!"

Golden Mask instantly calculated the risk and determined that the mental state of the Evil Sun Carrier on the bed was not stable, likely to set the room on fire, or even cause irreversible damage to Duke Castle.

A flick of a finger!

A droplet of golden liquid could be seen flying straight towards the child’s face. If it adhered, it would instantly form a Golden Mask and suppress him.

Faster than a bullet and hard to notice, the golden liquid was evaporating in mid-air as it approached, having turned violently in its direction,

even Golden Mask standing at the doorway felt a spreading burn throughout his body.

Just as Golden Mask was preparing to demonstrate his true capabilities,

William’s voice echoed inside the room, "Being deeply immersed in a character can indeed show one’s dedication to the role, but that does not make one a professional actor.

A true professional should know how to differentiate between acting and reality. This, my friend, is reality, and I certainly won’t be cutting off your flesh.

Welcome back, child."

The words, laden with Madness Brain Virus, rippled directly to the child’s brain, forcibly soothing his tense mental state.

Gradually,

the flames on the lamp stand dimmed and disappeared,

the six corpse arms holding the lamp stand slowly withdrew, reverting to a normal right arm structure,

Grep slowly sat up from the bed, donned a hood to cover his frightful scorched and multi-eyed face,

He vomited! Four different shaped, wrinkled, and dried eyeballs, akin to walnuts, emerged from his body, held in his hand, used in this form to stabilize his emotions.

Indeed,

he was still lost in his previous act,

even subconsciously glancing at his leg that had been cut off during the play, then he looked up at William with eyes that saw a pure psychopath.

Meanwhile,

someone else walked in through the door, it was Dentist Jessica, who had just escaped from the theater room.

The sight of the white-haired woman wearing a mask made Grep instantly react as if he were about to be devoured by her, starting to concentrate curse flames in his palm.

"Child, this is Miss Jessica from Teeth Hall, who played my lady in the recent play but is actually just a team member.

If you don’t mind, she can check on your physical condition."

"I do mind."

William could tell that Grep was deeply affected, so he signaled with his eyes for the others to leave, leaving just the two of them there.

Click!

The door locked, and only then did Grep slowly start to recover.

Clap, clap, clap~ William, while clapping, walked towards the headboard.

"Truly worthy of being called ’small grape,’ your talent for performance is indeed exceptional, immersed from beginning to end in the perspective of a drunken detective. Moreover, you successfully passed the challenge I designed, welcome to my theater."

As the clapping ended, he had already reached in front of ’small grape,’

William pointed to his own cheek, "Speaking of which, could you take away the Evil Flames on my face? It’s burning painfully."

Grep’s eyes rolled, and the Evil Flames scorching his cheeks immediately retreated back into his eyeballs.

Then, from the mouth on Grep’s face, which was likewise covered with scorch marks, and even leaking ashes, a core eyeball held within, he uttered dry words.

"William, this performance set in the scene of Lu Pu, aside from combining Lorrian’s power, must have incorporated something else, right? It wouldn’t have had such a big effect on me otherwise.

Right now, I’m having a hard time suppressing the negative emotions inside me, and I feel like killing you as if you were a perverted ghoul."

William spoke lightly, "Exactly, the discomfort you’re feeling is indeed the important message I want to convey with this public performance.

Fear Recovery is just a job for the circus, but I wanted to use this opportunity to report something to the Old World."

"What is it?"

"The real danger is coming, precisely the evil that you, ’small grape,’ are feeling.

The reason this performance touched people so deeply, why it could cause individuals to experience discomfort and an increase in negative emotions, is precisely because I used this item."

With that, he threw a storybook at ’small grape,’ who instinctively moved his body to let the book fall on the bed.

Even without seeing the content between the pages, ’small grape’ could still feel a strong **evil**,

and the Evil Sun Firewood within him spontaneously started burning to dispel the influence of these evil thoughts,

even catching a glimpse in the corner of the room of something slowly appearing, seemingly holding a spoon in its hand.

As soon as he clearly saw the woman caught in his peripheral view, even ’small grape’ at this stage felt an immense danger.

Whoosh! William gestured with his hand, and the storybook returned to his possession, and the woman also disappeared.

"William, what was that just now!"

"A threat from beyond our World, far more dangerous than anything we’ve experienced..."

"Beyond the World... have you already started touching that? Wait a minute!"

The increasingly calm ’small grape’ suddenly noticed William’s ’abnormality’; he noticed the special silver glasses over his right eye.

’Small grape,’ who was especially sensitive to eyes, finally understood what William meant by ’threat.’

"William, your eye!!!"

"One eye in exchange for this book and a whole new world understanding is worth it, after all, most people can’t even make it back alive.

Well~ ’small grape,’ you can first come down with me to eat something; this is just a preliminary selection for the program, and later we will even ’perform on the moon.’

Let me also take a good look at your current illness condition."

Following William’s invitation, the two of them left the room together, heading towards the dining area of the castle.

During the descent down the stairs, ’small grape,’ walking behind, remained in a state of emotional turmoil, seemingly pondering a very important, very difficult decision.

Upon completely descending the stairs, ’small grape’ finally spoke up.

"If it’s just the eye that’s missing, perhaps I... could help you replace it."

William stopped in his tracks but did not turn around, "Small grape, from the way you have been acting during the performance, I can probably tell that you’ve already grown accustomed to living independently, and it might be difficult to return to the state of being dependant on me before.

Filling in a concept is not an easy matter, and it’s very likely that you’ll end up permanently bound to me."

"Hmm..."