The question the Lady of Pain had posed.
It instinctively reminded Orsaga, who was still harvesting his crop of victims, of his homeland.
In the Bottomless Abyss, located in an external spacetime.
Not one of those monsters and freaks, whose personalities were even more fucked up than his own, was easy to deal with...
If Orsaga, as an individual, still had some boundaries and principles when it came to his temperament.
At the very least.
He had always treated his own people fairly well.
Generally, he kept his promises and liked to reward people according to their contributions.
Then.
The vast majority of high-ranking abyss demons were lunatics with no real boundaries.
Killing a few of their own.
Was nothing worth mentioning.
As for certain individuals with particularly outstanding temperaments, they outright lacked even the most basic logic behind their actions.
Often.
Never mind outsiders—even they themselves might not know what the hell they were doing...
Randomly killing people regardless of strength or background, or randomly attacking any target at all, was perfectly commonplace!
The simplest and most direct example.
Was that certain abyss lords did not even possess a complete individual consciousness. They were nothing but lunatics...
They killed any person they encountered!
They killed any ghost they encountered!
They slaughtered any god they encountered!
And the only reason they could survive was that their individual power was strong enough.
So strong that even without any reason, with nothing but pure instinct, hardly any being could stand against them!
Before that kind of power, every scheme and trick could be crushed as easily as walking over level ground...
Even Orsaga himself did not dare claim he was stronger than those beings!
After all, the fact that they could naturally grow to that level without using their brains already said