It was called a puppet, but it was more like an intelligent life-form. Nine.
"Hold on tight, you two. I'm leaving this area immediately."
"I can't leave everyone behind here."
"No arguing. That Demon King is a strongest species, and the one subjugating him is the master of the Heavenly Army. Can't you see the gap in strength between the two sides?"
Though Yō still wanted to argue, the thought immediately vanished when she spotted Black Rabbit atop the rubble.
"Oh no. If she stays in a place like that alone... Almatea, bring Black Rabbit with us too, will you?"
"Understood."
Almatea immediately turned around, flashing with lightning as she placed Black Rabbit on her back as well.
"Hm?"
Azhdaha, who had been about to deal a fatal blow to the dazed Black Rabbit on the ground, stopped. Its confident finger-stab attack had actually been blocked by the human in front of it.
It looked at him. "Who are you?"
"Before asking someone else that, shouldn't you introduce yourself first?"
"Interesting. I never expected someone to ask my name. Very well. In this battle after two hundred years apart, I should indeed indulge in the luxury of introducing myself."
A flag inscribed with [Akala]—the original word for [Evil]—appeared behind the Three-headed Dragon.
It was the oldest cosmological view formed when the true nature of the world had yet to be defined, separating heaven and earth, giving birth to yin and yang, and establishing good and evil.
"I am a three-digit being of Little Garden, one of the Zoroastrian Deity Group, a Demon King—Azhdaha. I inherited the flag and three-digit rank from the Sect Master, an irreconcilable incarnation who decided to spend this life as the god of Demon Kings."
A scorching wind echoed through the surroundings, a heat current sweeping