Time slowed.
It wasn't just Noah, even Ailetta looked at Eve in shock. What exactly had happened during the time Eve and Ava had chased down the Angel?
The grimoire, which should've still been inside Ailetta, whose body was similar to a dimensional space in its own right, had somehow been able to be breached without her knowing.
By the time the grimoire fully materialized, it hovered above Eve's hands, levitating just a few inches above her palms. The book was still closed, and it was then that Noah was able to catch a glimpse of its new appearance.
The grimoire still retained the four skeletal hands clutching its corners, even its haphazardly stitched leather was the same. But in the middle of the cover, he could see an imprint of a skull, a skull that was almost a direct reflection of Ava.
