The die had been cast. Under the smiling wave of a certain Vile Serpent, the slow-on-the-uptake Waver and Iskandar could only sullenly embark on their forced journey into labor.
Watching the two figures gradually recede into the distance, Mashu beside him finally caught on.
"Senpai, you did that on purpose?"
Samael winked teasingly and smiled without answering.
Though physically eliminating those three unstable factors would have been the easiest solution for him, it also carried the greatest hidden risks.
For one thing, destroying their bodies did not guarantee they had not left behind some contingency for reincarnation. After all, both Lev and Hartless were meticulous planners.
And now that he had failed to finish them off, the other side was on guard. It would not be so easy to catch them all in one net next time.
For another, even if they truly vanished into ashes at his hands, the trail would end there. No one knew why they had come to Fuyuki City, what plan they intended to advance, or whether it was necessarily connected to the formation of the Singularity.
Leaving it alone was, no matter how one looked at it, an extremely serious hidden danger.
Therefore, rather than killing the three of them outright, it was better to cast a long line and catch a big fish. Once he understood the whole story, he could decide how to deal with them.
That would ensure nothing went wrong while also earning him favors from Waver and Iskandar.
There was no doubt that Waver felt deeply for magecraft and the Mage's Association. He held a strong sense of reverence for teachers and tradition. Take his former teacher, Kayneth, for instance. The man could hardly be called kind to him and had even nearly killed him during the Holy Grail