"Captain!"
"Make way, the captain is here!"
Seeing that Yuri had arrived, the Devil Knights who had reached the spot earlier immediately cleared the way, allowing Yuri to observe the scene inside.
It was two headless bodies, wearing the attire of Hogney's subordinates.
"What happened?" Yuri asked.
"They were killed," a Devil Knight replied curtly, "and when we arrived, we found their bodies... had changed."
As he spoke, the Devil Knight brought over the two heads and placed them in front of Yuri.
This was Yuri's first time seeing the faces of these men without their masks, and though he was somewhat prepared, the sight of their pitted, pothole-like faces, with tiny worms incessantly squirming, still made his eyelids twitch uncontrollably.
"Captain..." the Devil Knight softly said, "Have we really been traveling with these guys all this time?"
Yuri looked around and saw both cohesion and fear in everyone's faces.
