He tried to sound pleased, but the memory of his comrades' bodies strewn on the floor in pools of their own blood wasn't pleasing.
"Oh really? Do you have an idea about who stopped them?" the blackguard asked.
"No…? Why? Is that important?"
"Ah, not at all."
Erik narrowed his eyes behind his mask. Was there something he didn't know? Well, to be honest, he knew next to nothing, but there was something in the man's questions that gave him something to think about.
By using his instability brain crystal power, he delved into the blackguard's mind.
<Ah… That's why…>
The man suspected that the team sent to thwart the rebels' attack was Dark Tendrils' group.
The information he gleaned from the man's mind was both intriguing and concerning.