The next day, the members of Makdara Monastery, led by Rosette, headed with Diabolos to a secret base on the east coast. According to the intelligence Diabolos had provided, it was where the sinners led by Aion were hiding. They were going there this time to eliminate Aion's helpers and weaken his strength as much as possible.
Shizuku had no objections. Rosette's lifespan had already recovered, and she could freely lift Chrono's seal now. She would not have to agonize as she had in the original story, where she would die if she unsealed him and die if she did not, even when facing a powerful enemy.
Frankly speaking, Shizuku could accept that setup. Making a contract with a demon did consume soul power, after all, and a powerful demon like Chrono naturally could not be borne by an ordinary person's soul. So it made sense that using his power would shorten Rosette's life and leave her tied up before the final boss.
This showed that older anime had far more logic than later ones. At least Rosette's situation was literally a matter of life and death. Yet in many later anime, protagonists were loaded with cheats, only to shelve their powers for boring reasons like "I want to live a peaceful life" or "I never want to get involved in conflict again." Then they would only explode in anguish after seeing their family or girlfriends getting beaten into the ground by the villain.
Shizuku had absolutely no sympathy for people like that. She even sneered at them.
What the hell were they doing before that?
In Shizuku's view, those people simply had no clue what their own power meant. Those idiot protagonists seemed to completely fail to understand that a common man with a treasure invited trouble. They naively