Angel had grounds for saying this. In the Memorial Hall beneath City Hall in Dream City, she had seen the other two contaminated Sequence 2 characteristics. Judging by the size of the red glow representing the Mother Goddess of Depravity's corruption, the contamination within the Planeswalker and Barren Matriarch characteristics had been exactly equal.
This meant that the corruption transferred from the Duke of Entropy characteristic into Nast most likely amounted to the same quantity.
Yet the Great Mother's corruption within the forty infants Angel had just petrified and destroyed was far from enough. At least eighty percent remained elsewhere, perhaps still inside Nast, perhaps within more mutated infants.
At this thought, she swiftly swept her gaze over the ruined house, whose upper structure had almost completely collapsed. Using the few surviving reflective surfaces, she explored every corner, but found no other enemies.
Beside her, Bernadette frowned and repeated in puzzlement:
"One fifth... you mean four times as many of these monsters are still hiding near the village?"
"It's more likely still inside Nast. He might have received a warning earlier, or he might have left the village long before that, leaving only these... children of the Great Mother's believers."
Angel answered tentatively.
She had originally intended to say "Nast's children," but recalling her glimpse of the infants before the battle, she felt that they bore no resemblance whatsoever to the burly Nast with his black hair and beard. Instead, their forms varied, as though each had come from different "parents."
Remembering how Nast had occasionally hired young people to work deep in the forest after arriving in the village, Angel could not help forming a horrifying suspicion.
As for how men could give birth, that was actually a less important question in mysticism, especially since the Great Mother's true