"..."
The girl could not help falling into a somewhat speechless state.
Even without turning around, she could sense the slight unease and tension carried in Shien's words.
He had asked the previous two extraordinary questions calmly and steadily, yet when it came to this one, he could not help becoming tense and uneasy. It was truly surprising.
After all, the previous two questions were undoubtedly far more important than this one.
One concerned a secret that had existed in Omnipotens's deepest reaches for ages, while the other concerned the safety of two "insignificant" Magic Lives. Anyone could easily tell which mattered more.
Yet Shien had been indifferent toward the former and extremely anxious about the latter, to the point that even the girl regarded by the world as the Demon Lord had nearly failed to react.
Naturally, this Demon Lord did not know that, to Shien, this was what mattered more.
Although Shien did care about those past mysteries and secrets, he was not overly obsessed with them.
In other words, even if those mysteries remained unsolved, he would not have minded.
In contrast, Shien truly could not ignore Laisha and Lasha's safety.
The Demon Lord, unaware of this, ultimately answered his question.
"They're fine."
The Demon Lord spoke softly.
"Although control over the 'body' and 'power' has returned to my hands, leaving those two children with only faint consciousness, I have not erased those two consciousnesses."
To erase Laisha and Lasha's consciousnesses would have taken this Demon Lord no more than the blink of an eye.
But she had not done so.
Because she did not intend to keep living, nor did she intend to seize control over the 'body' and 'power.'
In this Demon Lord's view, she would die once more. When that time came, Laisha and