Madness
The sentence of Ogai, the Void Summoner of Kamakiri's faction, echoed in the air like a death sentence. After Ryutaro's stories shared with his companions, Yoichi and the other two Nightblades tamers had just realized that Emperor Gonshiro was still alive.
The brave Shioko suddenly stopped wriggling. Her eyes kept on staring at the void, and her mind continued to process that information as if she did not want to accept it.
The merchant reacted in the same way, falling into deep silence and failing to hold back the tremor. The dark presence of the man named Ogai was justified by his origin. Lady Tamiko, the woman who had ordered him to travel to Tentochu, was one of the closest people to the Immortal Emperor of Kamakiri.
That great power and that mysterious substance were both unknown to the three tamers and to Shioko, the most experienced of them.