Before they knew it, Roxie's room had fallen silent once more.
Roxie and Vivian said nothing else, merely staring at Shien, each lost in her own thoughts.
Meanwhile, countless complicated emotions welled up within Shien, leaving him overwhelmed.
Though there were still many things he did not understand, perhaps one thing could be confirmed.
Nien was not Supreme God Omnis.
If Roxie and Vivian were right—if Supreme God Omnis, the omnipotent goddess of the world, was obsessed only with Demon Lord Clatiss and regarded everything else as equal, with nothing capable of drawing her attention—then Nien clearly did not fit that image.
After all, Nien was a pure-hearted goddess who blushed after seeing the wild fantasies racing through Shien's mind.
But if that was the case, then there was only one possible reason why Shien had been summoned: the third possibility they had mentioned earlier.
Yet that gave rise to another question.
"What does defeating the Demon Lord have to do with this?"
According to Nien herself, she had summoned Shien in order to defeat the Demon Lord.
If that was true, then did it mean this so-called crisis was somehow connected to the Demon Lord?
"Could the Demon Lord have already been resurrected?"
Shien raised that possibility to the two girls present.
Unfortunately, that possibility was denied as well.
"Once the Demon Lord has been defeated by a Hero, resurrection becomes extremely difficult." Roxie glanced at the Holy Sword in Shien's hand. "As a Hero who possesses a Holy Sword yourself, you should know that Holy Swords are extremely effective against demons, shouldn't you?"
There was no question about that.
They dealt additional damage to targets of an evil nature.
They could dispel and even purify power of an evil nature.
Those two effects undoubtedly existed within the Holy