Sei didn't make his presence felt all afternoon. He didn't come to her even in the evening. He had disappeared from the castle, no one had seen him where he had gone after taking the lifeless body of the old Lord of the Shadow Assassins.
Late in the evening, tired of waiting for him to come to her, Iris went to her room and passed her way in front of the door of his room, where she stopped for a moment to listen if there was any noise inside. There was nothing to be heard, so she took a step past his room when she changed her mind and turned and knocked softly on the door, as if she knew he was there and didn't want to be bothered.
No one answered, so Iris opened the door to look inside. On the bed, the bedding was stained with blood, a sign that Sei had brought there the body he had tak
