“Pardon?” Paimon’s unexpected answer baffled Gi-Gyu. “You will sync with me?”

Paimon gave his permission a bit too easily. It would’ve made sense if he didn’t know what “sync” meant, but he knew well what it entailed. It would connect him to Gi-Gyu forever and force him to become Gi-Gyu’s subordinate. The undying loyalty he would feel toward Gi-Gyu would ensure Paimon could never disobey or betray him.

Essentially, Paimon would lose his freedom.

Paimon asked, “It would mean that you will become my master in every sense, wouldn’t it? Isn’t that what sync means?”

Gi-Gyu was nonplussed. He had actually contemplated killing Paimon so that he could sync more smoothly. At this point, he couldn’t help but be suspicious of Paimon’s true motive.

‘Could it be that he found a way to destroy the sync connection?’ Gi-Gyu wondered. After all, Paimon had done something similar to Andras’ restrictions.

Or did Paimon already have a consciousness ready inside him to fool Gi-Gyu?

Gi-Gyu shook his head. That thought didn’t make sense because he now could tell which of Paimon’s consciousness was real. Paimon had to know this as well. After all, he had already synced with Paimon’s fake consciousness before destroying...