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An inexplicable sudden death.
It left her overwhelmingly sad.
She wanted to ask her father, that man full of scholarly aura, the man who used to lift her high when she was little, the man who had lived with her mother in mutual respect for many years.
She wanted to ask why this had happened.
But what terrified her was the horrifying discovery that her own father had become somewhat unfamiliar.
Although on the surface he seemed no different than usual, she felt an unexplainable disharmony.
It was as if a great demon was performing a delicate imitation beneath his human skin, but a fake was after all a fake. Others might be fooled, but she, his kin, could sense the dissonance.
She had also covertly tested him by asking about some secretive matters from the past, but her father answered everything in full detail without fail.
"Perhaps this is just how father has always been."
"He's merely revealed his true nature."
