After Baiyu left Alfred's place, it was already late at night.
He walked home at an unhurried pace, closed his eyes, and before sleep he silently called "Black Moon" several times in his heart, then soon fell into a deep slumber.
It was that same dream again.
Baiyu followed the forest path and slowly arrived at that clearing, where he saw the woman wearing a black gauze dress woven from moonlight.
She sat beneath the big tree, quietly smiling.
She wouldn't speak unless it was necessary.
"Hello, Moon."
Baiyu sat down beside her as if it were the most natural thing, and began to talk with her about the matter of humans being born with a Path within them.
About this topic.
Alfred's words couldn't be fully trusted, so he had deliberately come to consult Moon about it; by cross‑checking the information from both of them, what he got should be basically reliable.
"It is indeed so. Within the human body, there is innately a Sequence—that is the Path of Blood.
