220.
"Is that something you, who have brought along such creatures, can say?"
Azazel's gaze shifted to the side. Over there was Katerea attacking Serafall. Those of the former Leviathan bloodline, originally the bloodline of a Satan, those who rebelled out of dissatisfaction with being called the Old Satan Faction or being sidelined.
Aurelius, who briefly looked at Katerea, spoke lightly.
"They are quite appropriate."
"Appropriate for what?"
"It means those who don't even know their own logic is wrong, who have no pride, no greater cause, are the same as you. Those who discuss the world without seeing it, not knowing that the 'right path' they speak of leads only to ruin... It's fitting for them to foolishly rampage and become sacrifices to usher in a new era. As those who demonstrate the foolishness of the old era."
"I agree to some extent, but we're the same as them?"
"Then are you different?"
She looked at the leaders of the three factions in turn.
"Devils, over 90% of whose roots are rotten, unable to do this or that."
"The fool who participated in the Great War when if the God of the Bible dies, angels disappear and naturally fallen angels would fall too."
"Swindlers who deny the god they believed in yet still proclaim themselves to be angels."
Aren't those all of you?
At those blunt words, the leaders of the three factions slightly grimaced, and she sneered again.
"No, it's not just your problem. Northern Europe, Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, Mount Sumeru... Besides you, there are still countless idiots who can't grasp the situation, to the point it's foolish to count them, and they're busy maintaining the present with small numbers."
"What are you trying to say?"
"That our master has reached the limit of her patience. That she's tired of your war games. Devils, fallen angels, angels, youkai, dragons, gods, all of them..."
Thud.
Someone stepped forward before her.
"Where is Ophis."
"You are..."
"Answer."
Aurelius looked at the man who had approached. At a glance, he seemed utterly ordinary. But she already knew from reports that he was formidable enough to defeat the fallen angel executive Kokabiel.
Of course, that alone wasn't reason enough for her to care. She was one who even ignored the leaders of the three factions.
But the sudden appearance of this man.
Looking at Ren, she was somewhat perplexed.
"...What is this? Why are you, who appears to be one of our allies, in such a place of all places?"
"Ally?"
"Answer. You who have received the power of the Apocalypse Dragon, Great Red."
"""?!"""
Everyone present was shocked by that startling statement.
Only Ren frowned.
"Because I have received Infinity, which is part of my master's power, I can tell. What you possess is clearly the Dream Fantasy power of Great Red... Since that being also distributed power to members of the cult under his command, it wouldn't be strange for someone to have it."
Suddenly, she frowned.
"Those who inherited his power are under special management within the allied cults. Since 'that incident,' those who wield that power have become even more precious... So it's impossible for there to be a wielder of Great Red's power that we don't know about."
"...."
"Yet to have inherited it so deeply... who are you?"
It was a natural question.
Among the Dream Fantasy power users she knew, there was no one like him. Moreover, after that incident in the past, the number of users of that power no longer increased. Therefore, it was all the more impossible for there to be a user of that power she didn't know.
In response to her question, the other party closed his eyes for a moment.
As if organizing his thoughts.
Just as he was about to open his mouth.
A change occurred even faster.
"""""!!!"""""
A massive Dragon Gate opened behind Aurelius, and recognizing who was appearing, she immediately rushed over and assumed a posture like a servant. An action that made her previously arrogant demeanor seem like a lie.
"...."
Soon, a girl walked out of the Dragon Gate. With her characteristic blank expression, she looked at someone and moved her steps, finally arriving to stand before the man.
"...."
"...."
Neither spoke hastily. Though appearance, form, voice, power—everything had changed, recognizing each other wasn't that difficult. Because they were such beings.
"...You were alive?"
Ophis was the first to speak.
Within her characteristic expressionlessness, surprise coexisted.
"'Were alive' would be the wrong expression..."
"Then?"
"'Reincarnated' is more accurate."
"Reincarnated?"
After a moment of puzzlement, Ophis nodded in affirmation.
Seeing her like that, Ren now opened his mouth.
"Why."
As if the words wouldn't come out easily.
But as if he must speak, he said.
"Why did you do this, Ophis."
"...."
"This is wrong."
At those words, Ophis looked up at Ren with her pitch-black eyes.
"What is wrong?"
"Obviously..."
"Then is ignorant unawareness not wrong?"
"Not knowing is not a sin."
"Affirmation. Not knowing is not a sin."
But, as if to continue, Ophis spoke.
"Not trying to know while being unaware is a sin."
"They didn't even have a chance to know."
"I don't deny that either. But that doesn't mean everything about them is acceptable."
Ophis's gaze went to Katerea.
"Those who discuss the world without seeing it."
Next, to the leaders of the three factions.
"Those who think only of their own kind and cause problems for the world."
Then, as if looking somewhere far away.
"Those who mistakenly believe themselves to be great and are immersed in arrogance."
Finally, as if looking at the town.
"Those who know nothing and are intoxicated by false peace."
Ophis, meeting Ren's gaze as if summarizing everything.
"All of it is wrong."
"This isn't correcting what's wrong. You're committing an even greater wrong."
"That may be, or it may not."
Ophis blankly looked up at the sky.
"'We' fought for this world."
"...."
"But those living in this world took only the rights without knowing anything. That cannot be called right."
"That is..."
"We protected this world. We saved it. ...Red accomplished it."
Ophis looked at her palm once, then looked at Ren again.
"Even if everything collapses, we are merely taking back the lives we saved, the lives we will reclaim."