Joshua noticed Cedrick’s unusually stern expression. “What’s on your mind, Cedrick?”

Cedrick was staring at the cover of the book, Abnormal Psychology, and thinking about what Benedict had said to him earlier in the ward.

“Benny told me a professor in the lab gave it to him, so I came to ask you since you were with him the most. Who else spends that much time with him?”

He wanted to know if it was a coincidence or a deliberate act to give a five-year-old child something so disturbing.

“I’ll look into it,” Joshua promised. “I wouldn’t be too worried, though, Cedrick. It must have been a coincidence.”

Cedrick nodded.

Five minutes later, Joshua found out from the professors on duty in the laboratory that it was given by a biochemist named Eugene Yortz.

Eugene was an elderly professor of about sixty, with a snow-white beard, a straight nose, and chiseled features.

He was not Chanaean. Instead, he was sent from Astoria as part of a collaborative project.

Joshua led Cedrick to Eugene’s office to pay the professor a visit.

“Eugene is a strange fellow,” he warned Cedrick in a whisper along the way. “Aside from having a funny character, he’s withdrawn, easily irritable, obsessed with research, and has zero regard for interpersonal communication skills. The things he does sometimes are bizarre.”

Behind his back, the other professors called him Professor Nuts.

After listening intently, Cedrick mulled it over for a while.

he now shares a stable and loving relationship with Inez. Compared to the earlier version of himself who had devoted his life to research, he seemed to have become an entirely different person. However, Eugene is different. He is sixty years

pair found themselves

never flatters anyone. He does what he wants and speaks his mind

that he quite

Benedict as strange a

Cedrick

Knock, knock, knock.

thrice in

of movement in the office, nor was there the sound of someone coming to open the

don’t I keep an eye here

him leave the lab during work

he rapped

irritated voice sounded from the office. “What good would knocking do? Why won’t you say why you’re here? Your mouth is not something

on the other side of

an earful before we even

is Prof. Mallory. I have something urgent to talk to

silence, the doorknob twisted with

office door opened and revealed Eugene, still bleary-eyed, glaring at them. “If you come knocking again without stating your intention, Joshua, I’ll assume you’re mute. It’s a

his colleague as an elder who was his

laboratory in Chanaea, Professor Yortz.

gaze on his face. “I opened the door like you wanted, and you’re telling me off,” he said huffily. “Feel free to make

I meant,” Cedrick replied. “Like you, Professor Yortz, I

glance at Cedrick. “I know who you are. You look a lot like the boy in the lab ward, the one who

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