Panic spread through the crowd—but Luca quickly raised a hand.
"Don't worry, Leona. You have nothing inside you. From the very beginning, you never had a worm at all."
Everyone stared in shock.
"I took your blood sample too. Surprisingly, yours was completely clean—not a trace of anything."
"In fact, your stats were perfect. Healthier than anything I've ever seen."
He looked at her with genuine curiosity. "Almost as if your body is extremely pure—no pollutants, no toxins, no parasites."
Leona looked unconvinced.
"You've also never felt that pain, have you?" Luca added. "The gut-wrenching agony everyone else described?"
Realization dawned on her face. She had never experienced it. Not once.
Luca looked down at Julius, who was in utter despair.
"For some reason, even though he put worms inside everyone else, he spared you."
He narrowed his eyes.
"Or rather than saying he spared you...maybe he tried to infect you too, but it didn't work."
Leona's eyes trembled in memory.
