Chapter 366
Chapter 366
"Hands up."
To think I'd hear such a hackneyed line in person, here. Ismailov obediently raised both hands. His book dropped to the floor with a thud. Between the artifact still beeping away and the identical alarm from the receiver Albertina Hohenzollern had brought, my ears were stinging. I scrunched my eyes and waved a hand.
"Nothing happened, Senior. It seems the artifact has malfunctioned."
Narce, who had been looking at us in disbelief, gradually hardened his face into the same blank expression I'd seen that morning.
"A problem with the artifact? Impossible."
"Allow me to check, Sir Ismailov."
Albertina Hohenzollern approached him and jabbed her hand right above the artifact hanging at Ismailov's neck. I felt my own neck starting to ache in sympathy. Ismailov's mouth opened and closed briefly, but he made no particular sound. Albertina Hohenzollern stepped back with the expression of someone witnessing a truly bizarre spectacle.
"It is not an error. His heart truly is racing."