A jolt sent his consciousness back into his original body, and Nikolai found himself to be looking at the hard soil of the alley. It took him a moment to understand what happened, but he could feel that his ghoul was slowly regenerating.
Nikolai could send the ghoul back into his pocket dimension, but it was more convenient to have eyes underground. The events earlier still left rage within him, especially toward Valkyrie.
However, a part of him was mad at Sergio, even if he knew that the alchemist was manipulated. A dark, invasive thought appeared in his mind: he was right about his friend being needy and pathetic.
Nikolai hurried to chase it away because he never thought that way about his friend. It was true that Sergio was easily manipulated, but he was not pathetic or needy. On the contrary, the alchemist was the strongest because he never ran away from people like Nikolai always did.
