Chapter 236: The things Kai need the most - Time and Freedom!
Kai stood up, his legs shaking.
The uncontrolled focus on runic calculations had taken quite a toll on his body, it seemed.
Kai cleaned his face again, mopped the floor, and then took out the food he had stored in his MRB secretly to feast on it.
A silver mist suddenly profused out of the bathroom's floor and took the form of a 6 ft long white serpent. Selene slithered up to him, kissed his chin, and then, for once, silently helped herself to the meat as well.
After they were both finished, Kai scratched her under the jaw, milked her for the venom, and let her rest on her original form in his lap.
Kai had specific plans for Selene and Darcie.
Using her intangibility to impart Parseltongue in Darcie's mind had always been Kai's motive.
Otherwise, there was no way for her to become a Parselmouth reasonably, knowing that he would have to use Parseltongue eventually in Darcie's form. Those murmurs in Darcie's ears as she slept would have given this phenomenon quite a mysterious touch and reasonable background.
But Kai's plans shattered like glass when Darcie came to know that the white serpent from her dreams didn't exist. To a Contestant, it meant that the Ghost Serpent magical creature didn't exist in this Timeline.
After using Selene to make Darcie get the Yellow Sign and other tales, Kai initially planned for Darcie to meet Selene in reality, making the serpent her pet. It would have let her communicate with the serpent, and Darcie would have realized she was a Parselmouth too.
Now, however, Selene would have to serve as Darcie's guardian spirit forever, until Kai mastered the true essence of facelessness. Selene's hisses were a sure and effective way to direct Darcie's thoughts and actions towards a particular goal, without jeopardizing Kai's Acting.