Oh, I see. So it's a hard to get into contact with for obvious reasons vanishing, not a suddenly just gone one. That's good.

[He sounds reassured but quickly falls silent as William keeps explaining. Only one of his feet keeps twitching every once in a while, signaling that he hasn't fallen asleep with open eyes.

The tale is sending down chills Vector's spines - there are a couple of unpleasant parallels to his own existence as Barian that correspondent awkwardly well with some of these facts of these so-called demons, although other parts of William's story just sound harebrained and stupid. If they didn't want a mess, then why demand an uninvolved outsider to make the call for their replacement king?

After a long silence he puts his cup down and sighs.]

That's a mess.