The Empress Who Realized Something Was Wrong

Without the slightest hesitation, she swung down the greatsword in her hand.

Even if the other party seemed to share countless ties with her, that could not diminish the slightest bit of its sin of baring its fangs at Soga Toyura.

Terror, brutality, resentment... and the despair and loneliness of seeming to have been forgotten by the entire world.

Resentment and hatred spread through the drifting world, through the world of The Forgotten One.

Auroria, who had been standing behind Su Youzi, even stopped in a daze. The woman covered her chest with her right hand, her eyes seeming to shimmer with tears.

"Youzi..."

"It looks just like my shadow." Su Youzi gazed at those fleeing resentful auras.

Then she turned around and gave Auroria a wide smile.

She nimbly stepped aside, dodging His Eminence the Pope and Kujo Iruka as they came over to investigate.

She did so to prevent these girls, who had once signed contracts with her, from making fools of themselves in front of her father.

Auroria could not speak.

That drifting monster, that struggling... monster of an existence, looked as if it carried the sins of the entire world.

Yet Youzi had crushed those sins so casually, and could even turn around and give her a relaxed, broad smile.

And... and Youzi had said... that monster looked just like her shadow.

That was indeed the truth.

Whether it was the monster's size, its target, or the roar it let out when it attacked Soga Toyura—

"Sister."

It really did look... like an offshoot of Youzi.

The sins of the entire world seemed hidden in the smiling eyes of the girl.

—"Seat of Karma."

Auroria suddenly recalled Su Youzi's title of "Seat."

And the girl who carried the entire world's "evil karma" took her greatest pleasure—or