Ethan spent his first night in the Holy City.
He slept soundly, but the patrol units of the Holy City and the upper ranks of the Council endured a sleepless night. Just before dawn, a detachment of the Holy City Navy found the unconscious Second Seat in an alley one block away from the Council building. When they rushed him to the hospital, the doctors brought them bad news.
—The implant in the Second Seat's brain had melted down. This was the main reason for his coma, and even if there was a chance he might wake up in the future, there was still a high probability he would lose all his memories.
For the family, this was nothing short of a devastating blow.
The Second Seat, in a sense, represented the family's interests within the Origin Society. In the eyes of most family members, the First Seat was an inhuman lunatic; no one knew what she was thinking about each day. Someone like that could never possibly put the family's interests first.
