“Hmm?”

“Before asking various things, isn’t there something you need to check first?”

Having understood that what Kraye meant by ‘something to check’ was the presence of a stamp, Olivia sighed once more and nodded her head.

“We need to get consent first.”

To ‘confirm’ whether there is a stamp on the child’s body, it is inevitable to undress the child. Since the child is already proclaiming, “I have some story!” with its whole body, obtaining its permission is not a straightforward process.

“Kraye? Kraye, what are you doing?”

Suddenly, Olivia waved her hand towards Kraye, who was unexpectedly unbuttoning his shirt.

“Why are you suddenly trying to undress?”

“Do you have something like this on your body?”

But before Olivia could finish her sentence, Kraye revealed the stamped mark spreading like a bruise on his collarbone. Sugar’s eyes, which were open but lacked focus, suddenly became clear.

Reflexively, almost instinctively, the child clenched its left rib with its hand. Both Kraye and Olivia didn’t miss this sight.

“Now you’re definitely awake.”

Intentionally, Olivia looked at Sugar with a cold voice and an even colder gaze. The eyes of the child, who had been staring at Olivia, shifted towards her, blinking.

With a clenched fist, Olivia raised her chin and asked, “Answer. Do you have something like that on your body?”

Sugar hesitated for a moment, then nodded with resignation.

“Answer properly. It’s a matter of proper etiquette.”

“Do I have to show courtesy to a… demon?”

Even though its shoulders were tense, and it was shaking them like a leaf, Sugar, who accurately grasped the situation, looked at Olivia with eyes wide open. In response to her reaction, Sugar cowered even more.

“More brittle than I thought.”

Muttering softly, Olivia gestured towards Kraye.

Even without words, the look quickly conveyed the meaning of putting on clothes. Kraye, who was slowly buttoning up his shirt, glanced at Sugar, who was staring at the area around its ribs, gripping it tightly.

Receiving that gaze, the child opened its mouth as if to resist further.
“It’s not a lie. The pupil’s reaction and the sound of the heartbeat are all the same as before.”

Upon his words, Sugar unconsciously touched his eye area and stroked his chest. Olivia immediately understood.

“If you don’t know what the stamp is, why did you try to hide it? Oh, before that, you should tell me why you brought him here in the first place. He’s your brother, isn’t he?”

“My, my brother? Do you know where he is? No, brother…”

Asking anxiously and realizing her mistake, Sugar changed the word referring to Kraye. Olivia, looking at Sugar, who hastily corrected the term, smirked.

“Since you already know he’s a boy, call him ‘hyung’ (older brother). No, call him ‘oppa’ if it’s more comfortable.”

“No. Hyung is more comfortable.”

“Then let’s make it clear now. Do you have a preference for cross-dressing?”

Looking at Olivia, who brought up the topic directly, Sugar, with a slightly disturbed expression, answered definitively.

“I have to cross-dress.”

“Who told you to do that? Was it the same person who told you to hide the stamp?”

“Yes. It’s my brother.”

“Why?”

“So I can deceive them.”

“Who do you have to deceive?”

“He didn’t teach me that.”

Kraye nodded again, confirming that this time also, it was not a lie. Olivia continued questioning.

“What about your family’s transactions?”

“I know that I owe a large debt to the Taren family, so my brother works as a servant in the Taren family.”

Sugar’s answer was partly correct, but it didn’t align with the intention of the question.

Knowing that the child was sharp-witted just from a few words exchanged, Olivia concluded that Sugar didn’t deliberately give a wrong answer.

Then…

Olivia gestured towards Kraye, calling him over.

He willingly approached her until their breaths could mingle.

“It seems you don’t know anything about family matters or ancient gods, right?”

“Yeah. Everything I’ve said so far is the truth.”

“Then you don’t even know your own… role.”

Olivia, wrinkling her nose as if she were putting something dirty in her mouth, spoke.

“If the child’s information is limited to that, we need to organize things a bit.”

“If it’s about the ancient god who determines the gender of the sacrifice, it might need some clarification.”

Twisting his lips sarcastically, Kraye grumbled, and Olivia’s face became even more wrinkled.

“It’s gotten more disgusting. More than that, according to the child’s words, the creator called ‘hyung’ seems to know something?”

“If that bastard is the one who hid the diary in the secret space, he probably knows something for sure.”

“Still, trying to hide the child somehow doesn’t seem very human.”

“Well, if the child believed that becoming a sacrifice would happen if he were wrongly identified as the ancient god instead, he might have protected himself desperately.”

“I didn’t think of that… Anyway, we have to find that guy. We can’t just leave the child as it is, now that we know it has a deep connection with an ancient god.”