Although he still could not directly peer into the true state of affairs within the gods' divine kingdoms, there were already many indirect clues that allowed Gawain to infer what had happened to them—the high-ranking believers of various churches could no longer sense the gods' "gaze," and the process of requesting high-rank divine arts had become a mechanical sort of "call" and "response." Both were typical characteristics of "pure divinity."
On this matter, Veronica, as the Saintess of the Holy Light Church and someone who had personally visited the Holy Light Divine Kingdom in ideological form, had the greatest authority to speak, because the God of Holy Light was currently in precisely this state.
And all of this had happened after the Night Lady had "visited" the gods. Coupled with the clues they had previously found in the church, it was no wonder Gawain suspected that the Night Lady had beaten all the gods into vegetative states...
He knew this guess was far too absurd, but he could not help voicing it anyway. "Could it be... that the Night Lady eliminated the gods' humanity? Or used some method to make them lose the ability to think?"
"I suspected that for a time as well, but there is a flaw in that theory," Veronica said, frowning slightly and shaking her head. "Why would the Night Lady eliminate the gods' humanity? Or, to put it another way, if she had that ability and chose to act, why would she not eliminate the gods' divinity? When the Divine Disaster occurred, it was mechanized divinity that truly threatened mortals. The human side of the gods should instead have been our ally... It simply makes no sense.
"Moreover, we discussed this before. If the Night Lady truly wished to help this season of civilization, she