Had Amon and Adam sided with the Outer Deities?
The words reached Klein's ears through an entire church of Marionettes, startling him so much that he almost rose from his high-backed chair.
His first reaction was that it was absolutely impossible.
Adam had already become a Visionary after the World War ended by guiding the world trend, while his brother Amon had long since gathered three Worm of Time characteristics and the corresponding Uniqueness. He only needed to complete the ritual to advance to a True God. They were nothing like the Outer Deities' followers, who had originally been ordinary people and worshipped these evil beings to fulfill their wishes and gain power.
Having already become a god, or being on the verge of becoming one, what good end could they expect from becoming the Outer Deities' lackeys once the barrier shattered and Earth was destroyed?
Would those Great Old Ones coveting Earth's Sefirah and Beyonder characteristics spare ordinary True Gods who had no power to fight back?
But on second thought, Klein realized that Amon and Adam were both children of the Ancient Sun God, born Mythical Creatures with little humanity to speak of. Amon's habitual use of plague-like parasitism on Böklund Street and Adam's attitude toward manipulating Angel's memories made that clear. They had neither moral burdens nor any affection for Earth or humanity. Betraying them for their own interests was entirely possible.
And those interests...
"Do you have any proof?"
Another Marionette in the Church of the Fool spoke.
Zarathus turned toward this elderly believer of the Fool and answered with a genial expression and a gentle tone:
"Of course. If a Spectator of the highest level weren't concealing the movements of those evil god worshippers lurking in Intis, how could the official Beyonders have failed to