We've been tricked!
Looking down at the astonished Cleaners gazing upward, the Faceless Man, whose face was gloomy, couldn't help but puff out his cheeks and chew forcefully a few times. The sound of fine bones breaking mingled with the despairing screams of the lamp-bearing old man, which ceased abruptly in an instant.
If I haven't guessed wrong, everything I encountered earlier was likely a premeditated ambush!
Whether it was the Pisces Director who left the Sage's Cemetery to check on the situation at the No Return Path, or the Food God hiding in the coffin flirting with a woman, or the four old and weak Directors of the Cleaning Bureau... all of it was fake!
The Cleaning Bureau must have somehow detected our movements in advance, and staged this play to disarm our vigilance, luring me to bring all the Overlords of the Dead Realm into the Sage's Cemetery.
