Silence returned to Fool's Sanctuary.
The battered sanctuary stubbornly held together instead of collapsing outright, but it had become an unsightly mess, as though it had just been through a demolition.
The Magic Circles that had originally covered the place were now riddled with gaps.
The pillars that had once stood upright toppled one after another.
Everyone struggled to their feet and returned here, staring at the place—and even more at Luo Zhen, who had descended from midair once again. None of them knew what to say.
Magnus in particular had a complicated look in his eyes.
Even Raizen looked as though he had been caught in a dream whenever he recalled everything that had just happened.
The giant monster had vanished.
But it had not truly disappeared. It had merely returned to the depths of Fool's Sanctuary, to the place where it had originally stayed. It simply was not here anymore.
In other words, that terrifying monster was still here, still beneath the same roof as them.
The thought made everyone's expression turn ugly again.
"W-what... what exactly was that just now...?"
Koko still had not recovered from her shock. Clutching Irori's clothes tightly, she asked the question with her little face deathly pale.
No one answered her.
It was not that they did not want to. They simply did not know how.
Because everyone else wanted to know what that monster was, too.
There were probably only two people here who knew what kind of existence it was: Luo Zhen and Magnus.
However, even Luo Zhen had not expected Magnus to call that monster by such a name.
"Androgynous...?"
Luo Zhen cast a meaningful look at Magnus.
"I didn't expect you to give it a name like that."
Luo Zhen was not saying this without reason.
----"Androgynous."
That