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"Has she come? Is she trying to kill me to stop the possibility of Serafall reviving?"
Anos smiled.
"You may have misunderstood something. I am really not that enthusiastic about reviving her."
"However, since you came toward me, things have become easier."
Anos smiled and raised the cross on his chest.
"What?"
Katerea finally realized something was wrong.
This man had been far too calm from the beginning. It was as though Serafall's life and death had nothing to do with him.
Only when she prepared to kill Anos did she finally react.
Perhaps the other party had been waiting precisely for the moment when she wanted to drag him away with her as well.
"Bye-bye."
The cross in Anos's hand came into contact with Katerea.
Hiss.
A wisp of smoke was left in the air, along with a sound like water vapor evaporating after touching something extremely hot.
Then Katerea turned into a ray of light and scattered into the air.
"Sigh."
Anos sighed.
For someone like her, who had always been driven by desire and hatred, perhaps this was not a bad ending.
At the very least, there was no choice more suitable than dying by his hand.
She wanted something she could not obtain, yet insisted on forcing it anyway.
If she offered her life to such greed, then walking down a path of gradual self-destruction was only natural.
"You... you defeated her just like that?"
Serafall's rose-colored eyes were filled with disbelief.
What kind of ability was this?
If it could eliminate Katerea, who had fought evenly with her, then it should be able to defeat Serafall with ease too.
"Of course. This was not difficult."
Anos looked at Serafall's current state and could not help raising a brow.
Although he had long known Serafall's data, looking at data and seeing it in person were indeed different things.
"Then were the things you said earlier true? Can you really perform reincarnation?"
Serafall asked the question she cared about the most.
At a time like this, she had even forgotten that she was supposedly very dissatisfied with the relationship between Anos and Sona.
She only wanted to know whether this person had absolute confidence when saying such things.
"How could that be possible? How could something like that be done so easily? More importantly, you are a Satan. The stronger a person is, the lower the success rate of reincarnation."
"I merely knew what choice she would make under certain circumstances. Once I knew what choice she would make, I could wait here for her to approach me."
Anos put the cross back.
The effect of this cross was to protect every person wearing one, break all curses, and eliminate all negative states.
As for the purification just now, that was only an additional effect. It was not the core mechanism of the Sacred Cross.
After hearing Anos's words, Serafall was so angry for a moment that she did not know what to say.
Should she say he really was a bastard after all?
"Compared to those questions, I think you should put on some clothes first."
Anos knew what Serafall was thinking just from looking at her expression.
It was nothing more than dissatisfaction with his actions.
However, she was not an unreasonable person. She knew that Anos had saved her life. That was a fact.
Otherwise, she probably would have started bickering with Anos again.
And now, after hearing Anos's words, she fell into a long daze once more.
He said she should put on clothes?
Why should she put on clothes?
Looking down, she finally noticed her current state.
When Katerea had swallowed her, her clothes had naturally been dissolved. This was also something Anos felt slightly dissatisfied about.
That was right.
Her clothes had been dissolved, and Anos was very dissatisfied.
Serafall had a habit of wearing a magical girl outfit when fighting. He had originally thought he might be able to see an interesting scene like a magical girl's corruption, only for her clothes to dissolve instead.
It had to be said that that was truly lacking in style.
How could there be no magical girl outfit at a time like this?
The place where Anos felt dissatisfied was slightly different from ordinary people.
After being reminded by Anos, Serafall hurriedly changed into one of the magical girl outfits she usually wore.
Remaining stock: 999.
"You... saw?"
She subconsciously pressed down on her skirt and asked a very meaningless question.
"Relax. I did not."
Anos smiled as he spoke.
"You are acting like this, and you still say you did not?"
Serafall immediately retorted.
"You are already like this, and you are still asking whether I saw?"
Anos replied unhurriedly.
"Uh..."
Serafall clearly understood the fact that the question she had asked was completely meaningless.
Her twin-tails drooped as though they had withered.
"All right, I know what you want to say. Relax, I already had the data long ago, so you do not need to worry about whether I saw anything just now."
Anos looked around.
After the battle ended, the alternate space used for combat was gradually dissolving.
"This..."
A tear overflowed from the corner of Serafall's eye.
Was this not even more serious than only seeing it now?
Ever since she had become a Satan, she had not felt this emotion in a very long time.
The feeling known as grievance.
"Serafall, stop messing around. There are more important matters right now."
Anos had no intention of continuing the conversation with her here.
After all, now that the Old Satan Faction had been almost completely annihilated, the Hero Faction should also be letting go of its hand.
Otherwise, after the remaining small fry were wiped out, the next ones to suffer would be the Hero Faction.
"Eh? What more important matter?"
Serafall had not yet recovered from her shy and despairing state.
A normal girl would naturally feel embarrassed after being seen.
As for despair...
Her original thought had been: since something like this had happened, she could only kill the person who saw it.
But the actual situation was: she did not seem to have the ability to kill Anos, who had purified Katerea in an instant.
Since she could not make Anos lose his memory or kill him, she could only die herself to preserve her pure heart toward Sona.
That was the impulsive thought she had just developed.
However, after thinking for a long time, she still gave up on that idea.
Her twin-tails drooped so completely that they were no longer suitable to be used as reverse handlebars.
"The important matter, of course, is that the space moved away from the world is about to return to its original location."
Anos smiled as he spoke.
The Dimension Lost surrounding this space was dissipating.
Soon, this false space would completely vanish.
At that time, they would return to the original Kuoh Town.
"We... we are going back?"
Serafall froze.
Having just experienced both a life-and-death crisis and a purity crisis, she was somewhat different from usual.
"Of course. Next, something very interesting might happen."
Anos smiled as he spoke.
After saying that, he glanced toward the dimensional gap.
Although it had no intention of appearing, the Red Dragon God Emperor should be in that direction.
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