Chapter 50: Twenty-Eight Pages
"Milo had been misunderstood," Raiden muttered as he read the Book of Aaron, his head resting on his pillow as he lay quietly in his bed on a peaceful morning.
"It is distortion... meant to mislead people?" he muttered once more as he continued glancing through the pages, flipping them slowly.
The book was never called the Book of Aaron. According to Raiden’s knowledge, its true name was the Book of Distortion—but since no one in this world could speak English, the word "distortion" was completely meaningless to them. So they adapted "Aaron" instead, taking it from the bold golden letters emblazoned across the cover.
To Raiden’s knowledge, either Milo’s actual name in this world was Aaron, or it was an acronym that had to be translated. But what troubled him most were those very words themselves.
Taking a closer look at the cover, there were scratches where the word "distortion" was written—and worse, it was the only word on the cover that was handwritten.
This led Raiden to believe that either someone other than Milo had written it, or everything on the book cover had been written before Milo got it and he had simply erased a word to write "distortion." Either way, it meant he had nothing to do with the name Aaron.
Aside from the cover, many things within the book itself made Raiden’s head spin, leading him to believe the word "distortion" was written on the cover for a reason.
With careful consideration, he realized Milo had divided it into three parts—the last was about mana, but the most vital points of the first and second parts were among the missing pages. There were twenty-eight of them missing.
TWENTY EIGHT!