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Parson had to wonder if any of this was even necessary. Surely, the Mad Demon could have simply pressured Asad with his overwhelming soul power and compelled him to be truthful. Morgunov was the inventor of that technique, after all.

So was he just doing this for shits and giggles?

Well.

Yeah, there was a decent chance that was precisely the reason. If this were any other emperor, then Parson would've been certain that they wouldn't want to waste their time, but this was Morgunov.

That reasoning, however, made Parson feel a bit bolder all of a sudden. He felt that, perhaps, if this was all just some big game to him, then the mad emperor might not mind if Parson chimed in with his own distracting inquiries.

"Why did you blindfold him?" asked Parson, trying to sound as genuinely curious and non-threatening as possible.

Morgunov's piercing silver gaze rose to him, and for a second, he just stared at Parson.

In that second, it felt like the man was weighing the entirety of his existence, deciding whether to end it or not.

Then he smiled that insane smile again. "Well, you never know who might be watching. Or listening, even. But sadly, he wouldn't be able to answer my questions if I plugged his ears, now would he?"

In all his time corresponding with Damian, Parson had learned many things about the Mad Demon of Abolish. And one of those things was that, oddly enough, the man seemed to enjoy teaching.

If it was the right student. And only if.

According to Damian's tales, Morgunov was ruthlessly cruel and vicious toward students who earned his ire. Parson recalled one story about some poor bastard named Heinrich who'd had his entire bloodline extinguished after Morgunov decided that the man hadn't been taking his lessons seriously. And another about a guy named Lozaro, who was already an infamous scientist in his own right, until he fell asleep during one of Morgunov's lectures.

Supposedly, Morgunov "tore him from the very fabric of reality itself," though Parson hadn't quite been able to understand what that meant or how Damian knew it to be the case.