The Gentleman at the End-Chapter 741 - 739: Lorrian’s Concerns

[Dining Room]

William, Jessica, and Grep were dining here, with the Golden Mask supervising as a waiter.

A grand grape feast was laid before Grep, all ingredients sourced from the trade guild. Having lived independently for over a year with few good meals, he was now delighting in the feast.

Throughout Grep’s meal, Jessica, wearing a mask, would occasionally glance over.

Although he had distinguished reality from acting, he was still somewhat wary, especially when seeing through the mask Jessica’s sewn-together enormous mouth and her teeth-filled maw, feeling like she might devour him.

William’s voice suddenly broke in, "Miss Jessica, as a doctor, is very curious about your body. She’s already given me a medical examination and provided some excellent advice. You really should try it, little grape."

But before little grape could respond, Jessica spoke first:

"Evil Sun Carrier, your body has merged with at least four sizeable pieces of Evil Sun Firewood. Such a body is impossible for me to examine perfectly; I might even get infected with a curse.

Only by going to the Teeth Hall and using the ancient instruments there, can we possibly obtain a complete body examination.

Your ’base’ for storing the firewood is interesting—it looks like a ’corpse,’ but these bodies seem noteworthy, all taken from special humans of the Otherworld.

Each body corresponds to a human with great talent, especially in the domain of the ’Eye.’ Using eyes to carry a shape similar to the Evil Sun, that’s really clever.

Wow, William, you actually have such a character by your side. To carry the Evil Sun so smoothly, the Old World would probably not find five others."

Hearing Jessica give such high praise, Grep’s defenses against this woman eased a bit within.

Jessica chewed her teeth, "However, carrying the Evil Sun subjects one to not just physical stress but also mental impact. Each piece of Evil Sun Firewood can curse passersby, let alone stuff such things inside your body.

Although you appear fine for now, if you keep collecting, sooner or later, your personality will be taken over. You must be careful."

"Mhm." Grep was clearly aware of the meaning of her words, as he had already experienced it, even now able to hear the whispers of the Evil Sun by his ear.

After popping the last few grapes from the plate into his mouth, Grep slumped into his seat, savoring this rare moment of rest.

"By the way, why haven’t we seen Lorrian around?"

"He’s controlling the False Moon, maintaining an Illusion Realm for tens of thousands."

"He wouldn’t be so obliging in helping you out, would he? Did you make a trade with him?"

"Certainly, Lorrian would never appear to be at a loss at least on the surface. I made a trade with him. For now, he’s assisting my performance as an external expert, and he can also select from these participants some special patients who can stay on the Moon for modifications and work."

"Modifications?"

"Remember the taxi driver you met during the performance? His sensation should be different from the other Fear factors, right? That’s roughly the situation with Lorrian, related to Galon..." 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Having followed William before, little grape had encountered Galon and his Otherworld, so after some explanations, he roughly understood the situation.

"It seems a lot has happened while I was away. By the way, how much longer will this initial selection game last?"

"Come with me and see for yourself."

After dining, all of them took the castle’s internal elevator directly to the very top.

A spectacle like nothing ever seen in the Old World was unfolding before their eyes,

The False Moon—’Yin Head’—hovered overhead, and with each opening and closing of its mouth, each breath in and out, a multitude of threads of Fear drifted over from outside the castle.

Those seated outside the castle, wearing masks and moon-gazing, maintained a seated posture, Fear threads spilling from their orifices.

But there were a few who showed no fear at all throughout, with even one person relishing it,

Little grape’s eyes quickly identified, seeing Art sitting in a treehouse with Catherine, wearing a child’s mask, occasionally emitting chilling laughter.

"The Chief Clown... This guy is acting like it’s all just play."

William explained, "Art is originally one of the extremely evil individuals of the Old World; the influence of evil thoughts on him is minimal, he can even control them completely.

His coming is timely, as it allows us to test just how far Art can go.

From the current progress, the initial selection should take about one more day, and those who are ultimately chosen will head straight to the Theater inside Yin Head."

"What are your plans for the final performance, another game?"

"No, the final performance will be a live show inside my Theater. I don’t need to take the stage myself; instead, Yi Chen will mainly carry it out with one of my deputy officers, and you’ll see by then.

And as for me, my main job will be to tell the story."

"How about this, I’ll first take you to see the theater, you haven’t seen it yet."

"Okay."

William had intended to grab little Grape’s arm and teleport straight up.

Who knew that a heatwave would rise, with ashes scattering.

Little Grape flew vertically towards the surface of the Moon in a fashion akin to a fire person, at an unbelievably fast speed, dragging a long tail of flame and ash beneath him.

"Kind of cool~"

The two of them successfully landed on the surface of Yin Head and took the ’Moon Crater’ formed by metal patches straight to the Theater located in the deepest part.

As William was introducing and leading Little Grape into the theater, he unexpectedly discovered that a silver-haired youth was already sitting in the first row of audience seats, fiddling with a coin in his hand.

"Lorrian, you didn’t go control the Moonlight?"

"The scene is set, everything can run on its own with the False Moon, as long as no one deliberately causes trouble, there shouldn’t be any problems. Even if there are, I can immediately adjust everything from the Moon Core.

Moreover, young brother Reagan is also helping to control the metal core inside the False Moon.

On the contrary, ’this person’s’ arrival has caused a brief disturbance in Yin Head’s magnetic field, lucky for us, I managed to get it under control in time.

I didn’t expect that such an Evil Sun Carrier would actually be the little black ball that used to be inside you, William... very interesting. And since he’s assembled from a human corpse, perhaps he could be reborn through the rules of that other world."

Although the voice was coming from the front row,

In the blink of an eye,

Lorrian, with his silver hair and Moon Eyes, was already standing in front of Little Grape, looking directly into his charred eye sockets, completely unaffected.

Suddenly, Lorrian turned his head with a look of distaste and asked, "William, is this what you call a measure to fill the flaws?"

Facing Lorrian’s blunt words, William paused for a moment, then replied decisively, "That’s right."

However, Lorrian just shook his head, disappointment evident in his expression.

He didn’t want to meddle too much. Now that he was complete, he and William were merely collaborators.

He casually took a seat, pulled a list from his silver-white suit, and pinched it in the air with two fingers.

"This is a list I’ve estimated of those who could pass the preliminary selection, the entities marked in red will be taken to my Hospital after the performance, so we need to preserve a bit of their fear emotion. We don’t want them all turning into imbeciles. However, we could experiment with a few of the individuals that have been drained of fear as samples.

Take a look, the final selection results shouldn’t differ much from this list."

William waved his hand, "You make the selection, and when you feel they are about to be drained, move them ahead of time."

Lorrian folded the list back into his apparel, "One more thing... Art the clown will surely be selected, he’s even coming for me.

Since we are now collaborators, how about we cooperate and kill him? You and I, as well as this Evil Sun assistant, should be enough to threaten his malignant tumor.

It would be even better if Miss Jessica could join us."

William waved his hand to reject the idea, "Circus forbids internal fighting. If I kill another Chief here, the boss would see me as an enemy.

However, if Art makes the first move against me, killing him in self-defense would be acceptable. Let’s analyze the specific situation... Maybe Art is just approaching for fun; try not to escalate into conflict.

Focus on the performance."

At that moment,

Nash, who had been rehearsing inside all this time, crawled out of William’s ear, looking nervous, and said, "Don’t! Don’t even think about taking on Art. I know you, Boss, are very powerful, and this New Moon Origin is too... but we absolutely can’t target Art.

He’s terrifying!

So terrifying that the Clearance Department I used to lead can’t match his efficiency.

In short, don’t even think about killing him! If he really wants to cause trouble, unless the Duke steps in to suppress it, the performance will end prematurely.

As long as we can keep Art amused, he probably won’t do anything too extreme."

"Alright then."

As everyone was talking, Little Grape not far away looked at the Parasite crawling out of William’s ear and couldn’t help but turn his head away.