Chapter 1005

“Space—Twelve Angels!”

Seeing those words—words he’d read before and dismissed as a metaphor—now, with some information about the Twelve Angels in hand, they looked less like a figure of speech and more like a warning. River’s eye went wide. He stared hard at the text, struck by that dazed feeling of realizing the truth had been sitting right next to him the whole time.

“If the ‘Twelve Angels’ really have existed for a long time, then for a merc like Morgan Blackhand—someone who’s been to space on jobs—it might not actually be a secret,” V said, eyes fixed on the passage. “People like him… they tend to have a special sense for other monsters like themselves.”