""...Huh."
Lawyer York suddenly opened his eyes, starting to cough violently.
He turned over, keeping on coughing until he hacked up a clot of filthy blood and his breathing smoothed out.
He looked back at the door.
The door of the archives was tightly closed; the other party had already left. The accomplice who stole the documents was nowhere to be seen.
Afterward, his body began to undergo drastic changes—his features from the Snare Fiend started to emerge as he underwent demonization.
Many soft, tentacle-like pink flesh buds surfaced on his arms, spontaneously dancing in the air, like some sort of antennae, sensing everything around them. They were organs for ingesting dreamland and memories.
His pupils turned into a misty pink with a dark red cross star twinkling in the middle. His back became hunched, his body emaciated, and a snake-like long tail slithered out from behind.
With demonization, the wounds he had suffered were also healed.
"I've survived..."