[ Volume 1] Chaper 359- Unclear..

It was the same—it was the same. How could he not know? How could he not recognize the depth of the connection that had been right in front of him?

Kay's knees buckled, and he sank to the floor, his face buried in his hands as the tears fell, unstoppable. The bed beneath him, the once-pristine white sheets, now stained with his grief. He couldn't control it. The weight of it all—Esme's loss, the impossibility of what they were witnessing—crushed him.

Ray, who had been silent throughout, seated motionless, his gaze still fixed on the child. His body shook as though caught in an invisible storm. She was his child, there was no mistaking it.

Yet, the ring, the symbol of the divine beast, told a story none of them were ready to hear. The beast's ring could only pass to another upon the death of its true owner, and it would always take the shape that fit its new bearer.