Chapter 55. Hair of Fire (2)

“What kind of things?” NamHu asked.

Heesun straightened up and sighed. “I once heard Agnes, the oldest witch among them, speak. Still trapped in the arches, Caille bore a fruit alone. Her power enabled her to do such a thing.”

“A baby? Alone?” Saejin sneered again. “Here comes another one. To generate a child, you need a man!”

“Not always,” Heyon spoke, looking at Saejin. “You’re old, I know, but things like that don’t necessarily need a man to happen.”

“But we’re not talking about technology or science,” Heesun reminded him. “We are talking about power, pure and strong magic. A woman generated a baby in her womb alone. She fed him with the fear of lost souls that were delivered to him, along with the flesh of rotten bodies that even hell did not want. The child is purely a fruit of Caille, there are no fragments of anything other than her power.”

“Right. If that’s true, why haven’t we heard anything about it?” Aguna asked, like everyone else at the tab