Sea of Despair, the Cruelest Game

Had you ever imagined everything as it was now? Was all of this part of your plan too?

After remaining stable for so long... what exactly had caused your death back then...?

It quietly pondered and recalled. A vague feeling told it that it might have been used, subtly influenced without realizing it.

And very likely, Joy had also been influenced by that guy! Like that thing Joy had said to it back then.

Dead for so long, yet still able to stir up all this...

Moreover, Despair strongly suspected that Joy's current madness might also have been part of the other party's predictions!

Perhaps Joy was directly one of his people? That was hard to say.

The more it thought about it, the more terrifying it seemed. It had said it before! If Pain had been willing to join forces with it, they should have been the strongest!

But... it still did not understand. If Pain had truly done this, using his own death as a wager and plotting across several eras...

What was his goal? What could he gain?

How much pain could he obtain from all this? Even if he had truly schemed against the other gods, it should have been Despair and Death who gained the most.

In the end, it stopped thinking about it. In any case, Pain had always been the strangest among them, widely believed to have remained insane for a long time.

So much so that when he died, they had not thought anything was wrong. Now, it seemed that was not the case.

Do as you please. We can discuss everything once you return. You will need me...

Tsk, Joy wouldn't come looking for me, would it?

After laughing, it turned its gaze back to its game.

At this moment, the