"...Who knows."
Redenia tilted her head to the side, her bangs hanging down and concealing her eyes, making it impossible to tell what expression she wore.
"When I was still a child laborer, I thought that eating my fill every day and keeping my younger siblings alive was all I wanted—then the factory's Overseer chopped off my leg, refused to compensate me, and fired me outright."
Lioz said tactfully, "An eye for an eye. You could have killed him."
"I didn't. Even after gaining power, all I did was report the Overseer and watch him go to prison. He was only sentenced to death later for hiring someone to murder people and for his ties to the mob."
Redenia said lightly, "I'm actually a pretty decent person. At the beginning, I was quite kind."
"When I had nowhere left to go, I accidentally became a professional and joined the Hidden Society. Back then, I regarded my guide as my second parent and saw the Hidden Society and Earth as my new family—then, two hundred years later, my guide died, and the Secret Council dissolved."
"Just as I fell into confusion again, a group of moderate Hidden Citizens decided to coexist peacefully with humans and tried to integrate into human society—then the White Knight leading them was betrayed by his own people. I lost my direction again, and at that moment, I also lost someone very important to me—who was it again? I don't remember. I probably erased it myself."
"Before becoming your God Embracer, I had already been abandoned, picked up, and cared for three times—and every single time, I watched it all be destroyed before my eyes."
Redenia lightly tapped the table and said perfunctorily:
"What was I thinking at the time? Oh, humans, how complicated. I didn't want