At this, Gwen nodded slightly. Then, with a sudden grab, he pulled out an illusory figure along with several masks before Aha could react at all. Amid shifting light and shadow, it became a thin figure wearing an orange mask.
Once the figure in his hand had finished transforming, Gwen did not even spare it a glance before tossing it into Imaginary Space. Smiling, he said,
"All right, Aha the prankster is in there now. Aha the Fun God should just sit back and enjoy the show."
Eden's New Stage?
"Aha the prankster gets to enjoy all the fun, while Aha the Fun God can only watch from outside?
"That isn't fun at all!"
As though completely ignoring what Gwen had just done to him, the orange masks surrounding Aha displayed expressions of indignation, dissatisfaction, and grievance. Aha himself lodged an emotional protest.
"Go watch your fun somewhere else!"
Having achieved both his own goal and the goal Aha wanted, Gwen did not let the Fun God keep fooling around here. He simply raised a foot and kicked.
The next moment, a meteor set off from the Lands Between, streaked through the silent starry sky, and entered the sight of a girl who was, as usual, using her spare time to stargaze in the distance—
"Mm!
"It looks like a star that has never been recorded before!"
The girl, who aspired to discover an unknown star and name it after herself, cried out in delighted surprise.
After kicking away the still loudly protesting Aha, Gwen did not even look toward the direction Aha vanished in. He returned to the ground and silently entered the cathedral.
Though the entire universe would be thrown into upheaval by that brand-new Path, the faint light that had briefly enveloped the whole universe did not