The true appearance beneath the Fallen Angel's mask... was actually identical to Pope Iver's?!
And it wasn't merely a matter of resemblance. The wings behind them were also identical in number and shape! One was black and the other white... but what difference could there be between colors that were complete opposites, yet otherwise exactly the same? The people were even more shocked by this than they had been by the Fallen Angel's strange attitude toward Iver!
Not to mention, they weren't the only ones who had witnessed this.
--Under the influence of the Fallen Angel's spell, who knew how many people were gazing up at the sky and had seen his face? Even Iver himself was startled--
Because he had once seen Lucifer in the ruins. Although Lucifer's appearance had already blurred into an indistinct mass at the time, and Lucifer himself had even forgotten what he looked like... Iver clearly remembered that Lucifer's facial features were completely different from his own! Besides, it made no sense for his appearance to be the same as the Ring Angel's. Iver had already met the Ring Angel, and Ai Shiping looked nothing like him.
"...The Shepherd, then."
Iver remembered.
He had once met Lancelot during the Promotion Ritual under the identity of "Iver Moriarty." At the time, when Lancelot saw Iver use the Shepherding Method, he had blurted out something like, "Aren't you the Shepherd?" In other words, the Shepherd and Iver had the same appearance!
Iver's current appearance belonged to the Snake Tail, not the Snake! To preserve his own humanity, the Ring Angel constantly severed the memories from before his transmigration, creating one "transmigrator" after another, one "protagonist" after another.
Some of them were men and some women, some humans and some elves... In the past cycles, these scenes