In Angel's eyes, Klein's face, shadowed by the light behind him, still wore the smile of his "Clown" persona, but his expression had already stiffened.
The questions in her mind, coupled with what Klein's "shadow" had said earlier, had given Angel a suspicion. Klein's reaction only deepened it.
But the brass eyes were still staring at everyone, and the "Dark Angel" Sastiel wielded many powers, including those of the Spectator pathway. He might be peering into all their minds. Angel could only suppress her doubts and turn toward the eye behind the curtain of shadows nearest her.
"The Ancient Sun God, you, and the True Creator—are you essentially the same being?"
According to Amon, the Ancient Sun God's son, these three were respectively his father, the negative personality his father had split off, and the fallen portion that had seized his father's beyonder characteristics. Angel asked this precisely to learn how Sastiel regarded that history deliberately concealed by all the gods, and how he viewed the "betrayal banquet."
The brass eye she was watching swayed before the voice from an unknown source spoke.
"Yes, and no."
What kind of answer is that... Angel muttered inwardly, then pressed on.
"Then who do you consider yourself to be?"
"You may call me the 'Lord who created all,' The Almighty, or... 'God Almighty.'"
At that moment, Angel's heart almost stopped beating.
She had heard that last name from her own "Mirror Person" not long ago. Moreover, it referred not merely to that fictional being from the Old Era, but also to one of this world's only three "pillars"—the "God Almighty" who had fallen alongside the "Lord of Mysteries."
*No, perhaps it was simply a peculiar joke by that researcher who walked out of Chernobyl. Besides, his many great deeds in the Second Epoch