The sages were dismissed, their titles reduced to nothing but fancy tags for them to wear as pins. No more than glorified professors, each one of them was now cursed to carry the voice of the devil. His whisper haunted him, his face was instilled in their heart as the darkest moment of their lives, and it wasn't pain that he would inflict but torture not of the body, but of the mind and the heart.
Sitting in the assembly room with the handful who weren't affected by the curse, Zephyr gave Toma the stage to tell Cill and her sister everything that it had been hiding thus far. At times, the girls had questions, and Jill even had her weapon at the ready for both the devil and the sage. But as the story and the explanation came to an end, Cill raised a question that drew her sister's interest.
"If you're telling the truth, then why did you hide this?"
