Ending Life

"There you are! Why aren't you resting at this hour?" Kaede Takahashi's voice was familiar.

Lingling turned to him only to see him exhausted and haggard. He probably had not fully recovered from his injury after touching the forbidden barrier. He probably still felt the pain from his wounds.

"How did you get to the forbidden barrier? Don't you even have the slightest recollection of how you got there?" asked Lingling.

Kaede Takahashi shook his head and said wryly, "I slept very early that night. A sharp pain jolted me awake."

"Sleepwalking, just like Sinchino Mochizuki. He didn't even know what he had done." Lingling related the two issues together. 

Kaede Takahashi's expression changed.