Standing over Jeanne's corpse, Aiden watched it swiftly degrade, a pungent smell escaping as it did.
Lucille, his Homunculi assistant, had her gaze elsewhere as she inquired. "Why isn't it doing anything?"
"It's not that it isn't doing anything." Aiden calmly intoned as he crouched, quite aware of what Lucille was referring to. "Do you know why the Greatest Evil is referred to as a 1st-class Otherworldly?"
"Because of its ability to corrupt all things."
Aiden shook his head. "That's merely a facet of what that dastardly creature is capable of."
"Hmm."
"Reality fails in the presence of the Greatest Evil, Lucille. Space warps, Time distorts and the very essence of Order is turned into chaos. It's almost like a carrier of the very thing that created the Abyss."
"So even as it stands as a lone sentry out here…"
