Strange Account｜A Leaked Half-Page Autopsy File, a Glyph 'Growing' on the Dead Man's Tongue

(This piece is a transcription of a half-page autopsy file leaked from the capital. The deceased's name and date are both blacked out; the content is unconfirmed.)

How this page made it out of the royal-tomb morgue, the submitter won't say. The upper half of the file—the deceased's name, title, date—was all blacked out with ink, blacked out thoroughly. What couldn't be blacked out is the record the coroner wrote down. We transcribe it as it stands.

Autopsy Record · Deceased's Identity [Redacted]
Royal Era [Redacted], Ash Month

No external wounds on the body. No signs of poison. No struggle.
On the inner side of the breastbone, a black hard object grows out from within the bone, shaped like a crown-horn, piercing through flesh by about three fingers.
Not externally implanted. It 'grew.'

Oral cavity: a glyph on the surface of the tongue.
Not pricked, not branded, not inked. The glyph is within the flesh, born together with the tongue.
Glyph form ancient; cross-referenced against Royal-Tomb Invocations, Volume Three—Era-of-Gods glyph 'Void.'

Conclusion: this person was not poisoned. Cause of death: no precedent to draw on.
(The following 3 lines redacted)

That's all that's readable. The coroner's judgment is very level-headed: no wounds, no poison, no struggle—a man who looked 'perfectly fine' simply died like this. The strange part is those two things—the black crown-horn grown out from inside the breastbone, and the single ancient glyph 'born of the flesh' on the tongue.

That glyph, the coroner cross-referenced: it's the Era-of-Gods glyph 'Void.' After he wrote down this conclusion, the record breaks off—the last 3 lines blacked out with the same ink.

We don't know who the deceased was. The one who blacked it out was thorough, sparing not even the date. But he missed one thing: he blacked out who the dead man was, yet couldn't black out the fact that there truly exists, in this world, a way of dying that makes a crown grow from a man's chest, and a 'Void' glyph grow on his tongue.

If one day you hear that some person of rank 'died in the night, with no illness and no wound,' the funeral arranged in haste and silence—don't simply take it for a chill. Ask a question: before he was buried, did anyone examine his tongue?