[A/N: This bonus chapter is thanks to OfcSoccer4. Ws to OfcSoccer4.]
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The Fifth Needle's severed head remained in Simon's hand.
For several seconds, the only sounds inside the chamber were the blood dripping from the Nethri Demon's neck and the repeated impacts against the reinforced door.
The vice-leader stared at Simon.
His eyes moved from Simon's uninjured body to the corpse lying on the floor, then back to Simon again.
He had seen the poisoned needles enter Simon's body.
He had seen his veins turn black and the poison spread.
He had watched Simon stop breathing.
Yet the Minor Archfiend was standing before him without a single wound.
And the truth was simple.
Simon had never been poisoned.
The moment the Fifth Needle looked into his eyes earlier, Hollow Sky Eye had already affected his mind.
