Chapter 82: Fraud and Sincerity
"I know you're alert, there's nothing wrong with that. Ontology focuses on a sequence five like this, and it's normal for you to feel scared. β
Amun's clone, who occupied Calvin's body, chuckled and looked out the window of the car at the mountains that kept passing by, and spoke in a leisurely tone, as if he was discussing the scenery along the way with the people next to him.
Esther was not as relaxed as him, at most she just lowered her gaze slightly and stared at the book in her hand, and the corner of her eyes did not dare to leave the other party for a moment: "It seems that your family master has not completely let go of the information on 'Zoya', but only let you know about my existence." β
"Calwin" innocently nodded at his bandaged right eye: "If it weren't for the fact that I've had a problem and have a strange perception of your existence, I might think you're just an Amon clone." β
"Why do you say that?"
"You know too well how Amun thinks. If you're 'Zoya', that's reasonableβ"
Esther interrupted him categorically: "I'm not. β
"That's the problem," Calvin half-narrowed his remaining eye, his gaze swept over Esther's hair, and he could feel a faint resonance harassing his hearing, "It's 'Zoya' who is being disturbed, not you, but you can still use his power......"
Esther also fell silent, "Calwin" did not continue, and she would not take the initiative to speak, because as long as there is real content in each sentence, it is easy for the other party to catch the discord and deduce more information.
Esther does have some questions, and if she doesn't get an answer from the Night Goddess, asking "herself" is another option. Of course, she didn't want to face Amun's body, but now she was just a clone in an abnormal state, and she might be able to find out some new information.
There wasn't much quiet between the two of them for long, and "Calwin" smiled again, as if it were his natural instinct to exude affinity, so as to better gain the trust of others:
"Although you are not 'Zoya', at least the key to solving this matter is you." The doppelganger tapped his right eye socket, and Calwin's right eye was long since hollow, but even through the two layers of bandages, Esther could clearly see something squirming twice in it.
This caused Esther to subconsciously move her body away from him, and made a frank assessment: "It feels disgusting." β
Calwin shook his head helplessly: "I don't want to do that either. β
"What is the relationship between 'Zoya' and Amon?"
"Calwin's" expression suddenly became much more serious: "Old friend, I met a long, long time ago, the Third Age. We don't know much more than you do, and the ontology is very picky in this regard, but it only gives information on 'Esther'. β
Esther lowered her voice, "He wants to use the power of 'Zoya' to seek promotion to the top of the ranks? β
"It's not appropriate for us to talk about this here, although you and I don't matter, but if someone else hears it, they might go crazy because of such exciting content."
Esther's gaze swept over the passengers in the other seats, and a young mother was gently lulling her baby to sleep: "Didn't you steal the presence of both of us?" No one has looked this way since you sat down. β
"What if? You see, I'm not in a good state right now, and there's no guarantee that this estrangement will last long. Maybe the next moment we'll attract more distant attention, and then we can become anything of this steam train. Calvin said with a smile, the threat in his words was obvious.
"Okay, let's not talk about that, let's talk about something else," Esther certainly wouldn't get into the nitty-gritty, "Did Amon steal something from 'Zoya'?" β
"Calwin" was visibly surprised: "I don't know about this, but if that's the case, then Zoya's problem is more serious than we thought...... Is this your speculation? β
"Speculation, plus some kind of intuition." Esther frowned, "You see, if you don't know anything, then it's of no use to me, and we don't have any conditions to exchange." β
"Calwin" put on a hesitant expression.
Esther didn't have to look too closely to see that he was not "hesitating", but considering how much more information he could pry out of her, and whether there was any value in adding to the bait.
Esther didn't intend to give the other party room to continue thinking: "I don't have such a strong heart to talk to the 'thief' about sincerity." Can you let me go now? β
Although she said this, she didn't get up, but was just indirectly urging the other party to give a clear attitude.
"Where are you going?"
The question asked by this Amon clone made Esther think that he was indeed a little out of his head: "Why should I tell you? β
"It's just a suggestion that we should find a safer place than the moving steam train before continuing the conversation, because what we're talking about is not suitable for any 'ordinary person' to know."
"Calwin" also glanced at the other passengers in the carriage.
Esther spread out the book in her hand again: "Tsk, sure enough, it won't be good to meet you, it's really troublesome......"
"If it weren't for the trap of fate you left on 'Calwin', I wouldn't have been trapped in him and had a way to track you down. Isn't this the result of your own mercy? If you had killed 'Calwin' in the first place, it wouldn't have turned out like this. β
The blonde youth's smile was exactly the same as the one that annoyed Esther, and he was taunting Esther for being troubled by himself, but Esther did not pay attention to the malice hidden in his words.
Esther's emotions were unwavering, and her "spiritual intuition" was very quiet: "We'll get off at the next stop." β
"And what about your ticket? If you don't sit on the station, it's a waste. "Calwin" said with a look of pity, "Could it be that your ticket was stolen too?" β
"I'm a normal person, and I still have morals."
"I know, 'Luna Duboa, the spirit of music,' 'The song of the birch forest,' and 'The false human side of Zoya.'"
Esther's eyes stared at the book in her hand without showing any emotion, as if she hadn't heard it at all.
"Calwin" chuckled twice: "Is the silver moon beautiful?" We're all curious. β
In the blink of an eye, a strangely shaped claw knife was already across his throat.
Esther's eyes were still very indifferent, and her slightly lowered hand steadily grasped the "Logan's Claw", but her slightly dilated pupils exposed the unrest in her heart: "It seems that the declaration of your body has shared a lot of things with you clones. β
"If you kill me like this, I really won't be able to suppress Calwin's body and completely reveal his mythical creature form." The smile on the face of the doppelganger Amon was more kind and gentle, "I said it, right? The ordinary people on this train will not end well. β
"Do I need to care?" Esther smiled similarly to the man in front of her.
The young man who was pressed against the tip of the knife was in a trance for a moment, and there was a strange feeling like looking in the mirror, including the indifference and contempt revealed in that sentence.
After the stalemate, the claw knife stepped away from his neck.
"Blood will splatter everywhere, and it's troublesome." Esther whispered, as if explaining herself.
This time, "Calwin" didn't say anything more, and after Esther picked up the book again, he gave Esther the leisure to read quietly.
"Calwin" touched the position of his throat, and there was a rare hint of displeasure on his face.
It's just that the actions and words contradict each other, and it is not a clever way to deceive.
However, her personality is a bit different from Calwin's memory, and the information given by the ontology also conceals a lot of things, is he deliberate? Want to test the truth of "Esther" by sacrificing us?
It seems that he made the wrong choice to put his hopes of liberation on "Luna" and was unreliable. Her change was too conspicuous, and she was not at all the person Calwin remembered.
Or is it ......
"Calwin" smiled and recalled the song of "Luna" in his mind, because of Adam's handwriting, those memories were forcibly left in Calwin's head, and after being deeply parasitized, the existence that occupied the body could be browsed without hindrance.
She was or she is not normal then?
ββ
Two hours later.
Esther carried her suitcase, tightened her shoulder bag, and strode out of the platform.
The young man followed in her footsteps, keeping a distance of about a meter, smiling loosely under his rough beard.
This combination is not unusual, mainly because the bearded person with a bandaged face looks strange, while the lady in front of her has a little impatience on her face and clearly does not like her "fellow traveler".
Esther walked into the first hotel she saw and declared that she wanted the cheapest single room.
The reception staff at the front desk didn't have any opinions, as if they didn't notice that there was a person with her by her side, and Esther knew in her heart that this Amon clone had once again stolen someone else's perception of him.
After placing her suitcase in the room, Esther waited for the other party to step into the room leisurely before locking the door with her backhand.
The next moment, a puff of light swung from her head.
Calvin quickly stepped back a few steps and leaned against the wall: "I thought you would be more patient, just so eager to solve me?" β
Esther ignored him, but drove the points of light close to the walls and floor, creating a special space in the room.
"Can you say it now?"
The doppelganger Amon touched the wall with admiration, and after noticing that those points of light could instantly hit him, he immediately stopped his seemingly curious, but actually tentative actions.
He drew a circle in the air with his finger: "If I make any unusual movement in this room, you can 'capture' me directly at the first time, right?" β
"Yes. This is my sincerity, I don't know if you are satisfied? Esther asked rhetorically with a smile.
"There's nothing dissatisfied, I walked in by myself, and I also watched you set the trap in such a 'sluggish' way."
"Calwin" raised his hand and peeled off the bandages that had wrapped around his face layer by layer, revealing the claw marks on the right eye of the body.
It was only around the sunken eye socket, where the skin was undulating, occasionally trying to poke out a worm-like granulation, but before twisting into a monocle, it was strongly attracted and burrowed back into the dark, hollow eye socket.
This process repeats itself over and over again, as if a worm is constantly burrowing out and burrowing through Calwin's right eye.
Esther's hand moved, and she couldn't resist the small action of rubbing her right eyebrow: "It's even more disgusting to look like this......"
(End of chapter)