The hunchback's heart jolted with alarm, who would have thought that his greatest secret would be revealed by someone he simply stopped to beg from?
The awakening of the Poison Spirit Body was something he had never divulged to anyone, and had it not been for the others busily fighting over gold, he might have even considered killing to keep his secret.
Summoning his strength to lift his head, wariness filled the hunchback's one eye as he asked in a grave tone, "Who exactly are you, sir, and how do you know of my secret?"