After receiving the notebook, Ye Qingxuan and Wolf Flute left.
The dwarf stayed in the silent darkness. He lit his pipe. Inhaling deeply, he blew out a plume of thick smoke. The scale was shrouded in the smoke. It looked dead rather than mysterious.
"You gave him the entire thing," he said. "What he gave could only be exchanged for one page. Haven't you always been neutral? Why are you biased toward that kid?"
"It's not a bias. Hermes has paid everything for him." The cool voice rang out from the darkness. It sounded like both but neither genders at the same time. "And he deserves to know what had happened."
The dwarf laughed and tapped his pipe. "Is this your judgement? Or the judgement of all of you?"
The darkness was silent. There was no more sound.
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