Hearing the young man's words, Cardinal Loki fell silent for a long while.
"...Human?"
Cardinal Loki finally couldn't help sneering. "Can you even be considered human, Bram?"
"If everyone who sees me thinks I'm human, then I am human."
The young man called Bram merely smiled carelessly.
He lounged on the sofa with his legs crossed, then raised his head with a beaming smile to look at Cardinal Loki, who stood in the middle of the room. "If you can be called an elf, then I can be called human too, can't I?"
"—It should be the opposite."
Cardinal Loki said coldly, "If I can be called an elf, then you should be called a Child of the Moon. And don't lump me together with you... I have received the forgiveness of the Candle Holder."
"Oh, forgiveness."
The young man mimicked him grotesquely, raising his pinky and pinching his voice high. "Oh my, forgiveness!"
"—Bram Stoker!"
Cardinal Loki was instantly enraged. Crimson flames ignited in his pupils, while his gas-stove-like hair roared and swelled into an even larger mass of fire.
Red smoke filled the entire room, and the temperature rapidly climbed at a visible rate.
Clenching both fists, he stepped forward and snarled in a low voice, "If you came to the Theocracy just to humiliate me, then get out right now!"
"This is my room. You're the one who should get out."
Bram merely spoke lazily and unconcernedly.
Upon hearing this, Cardinal Loki turned around and left without another word.
"—But if you do that..."
Bram's drawn-out words gradually slowed Cardinal Loki's steps until he stopped. "Then Bear Angel's punishment for you later will have nothing to do with me.
"Just as I said, Utgarda-Loki—the former patriarch of Supreme Heaven. Even if you betrayed Supreme Heaven and thereby