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 “Aside from having a funny character, he’s withdrawn, easily irritable, obsessed with research, and has zero regard for interpersonal communication skills.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.

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

he was thinking, the pair

too blunt when you speak to him, Cedrick. He’s a man who never flatters anyone. He does what he wants and speaks his mind when something displeases him. He doesn’t care who you are or what power you

frowned and thought that he quite liked

that give Benedict

his eyes, Cedrick knocked on Eugene’s

Knock, knock, knock.

knocked thrice in

the office, nor was there the sound of someone

I keep

saw him leave the lab during work hours. He must be

greater force, he

Why won’t you say why you’re here? Your

profusely on the other

an earful before we even stepped

cleared his throat. “This is Prof. Mallory. I have

a moment’s silence, the doorknob twisted with a

“If you come knocking again without stating your intention, Joshua, I’ll assume you’re mute. It’s a waste for you to have a mouth and

colleague as an elder who was

“You work in a premier laboratory in Chanaea, Professor Yortz. How could you be taking a nap during work

“I opened the door like you wanted, and you’re telling me off,” he said huffily. “Feel free

Cedrick replied. “Like

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