[This is...a contract. Contract mana?]

[Exactly. It's the most peaceful of the darkness element's powers.]

[These memories... Kuheuk!]

What Lee Shin-Woo had done was simple. He had increased the darkness between himself and Seira and used the most fundamental feature of the darkness element, 'contract'.

They would be connected together, which made it a really convenient ability in a lot of ways. But all such contracts came with one condition: one cannot lie during the process.

Lee Shin-Woo took advantage of the condition to quickly and concisely relay some truths about himself to her, telling her who he was, why he looked like this, what he had been doing thus far, as well as what he wanted to do from now on.

And what she wanted to do.

[How did you...? Why... Ah!]

[There's no point in giving you the long story. You don't have the time anyway. You know I'm not lying to you. A contract is sacred.]

Lee Shin-Woo was capable of violating the contract’s requirement for truthfulness with Dark Shadow and Wild Card, but there was no need to tell her that. In any case, he had only been relaying to her...truthful memories of his past.

[Keuk. How did this happen...!?]

[You can do stuff like this...