"----"
The instant Fang Li's words fell, Root Shiki closed her eyes.
A gentle, tender smile remained on her face.
It was a smile like one she would show family, utterly unguarded and filled with closeness.
That smile alone made it feel as though Root Shiki truly regarded Fang Li as her twin, filled with immense joy.
Only after a long while did Root Shiki open her eyes and nod with a smile once more.
"Completely correct. As expected of you, you figured it all out."
With that, every secret of Fang Li's soul became clear.
It was precisely because his soul resembled Ryougi Shiki's that it could be so extraordinary, recording death like the Root.
It was precisely because this soul was similar to one that flowed from the Root of the Type-Moon World, and because what it recorded was death, that Fang Li's power manifested as the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
The existence known as "Ryougi Shiki" had manifested within Fang Li's sea of souls and guided him not by coincidence, but because the two were simply that similar.
If Root Shiki was the personification of the Root, then Fang Li was akin to an offshoot of the Root.
Though his soul had not been born in the Type-Moon World, it was because Fang Li's soul was so unique that he had been summoned by the Main God Space, become a Main God Envoy, and gained the power of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
Human children always inherited one of their parents' strengths.
Fang Li's existence was like the Root's child, having inherited only the ability to record death.
Yet in death alone, Fang Li had surpassed his source.
Having passed through countless worlds and recorded every death he had witnessed within his soul, Fang Li