And it's about that time, as Zangetsu finishes telling his story about Strange's untimely demise, that a crow comes hurtling down out of the sky and lands by the group. It's no shadow crow, like the ones Childermass has had scattered about, but a real one which means in a flicker of shadows and motion, it becomes the man himself. Obviously, the first thing he's going to look at is the corpse.

Even a man as stoic as Childermass can't help but grimace at the sight, though he will, thankfully, not go the same route as Yuya had. There's only so much vomit anyone needs to involve in this mess, okay?

"Good God, man, you can't just leave him laying out here like this," he exclaims, turning to look directly at Zangetsu as if this is all somehow also his responsibility. In truth, it should have been the Ringmaster's, but she's apparently a dragon in a lake right now. "Please tell me you at least brought his soul back with that."

Yeah, he missed the part where Zan had literally just said he did that. Sorry, my good soul-devouring monstrosity, you're going to have to repeat yourself.