Chapter 2198: "Phase Transfer"
At that time, Luo Zhen had just returned from the Izanagi Style. He was preparing to bring Raizen with him to speak with Tenszen, so that Raizen could learn the true facts.
For that reason, Luo Zhen sought out Shouko and asked Raizen, who was currently serving as Shouko's guard, to wait outside for him. He still had something to say to Shouko.
Shouko was not surprised. Instead, she waited quietly for Raizen to leave, as though she had already steeled herself, then met Luo Zhen's gaze.
"Then, what is it you wanted to say to me?"
Shouko went straight to the point.
Moreover, she no longer referred to Luo Zhen as "little brother" every other sentence as she had before.
That was because Shouko had realized that Luo Zhen had come to demand an explanation.
After all...
"My conversation partner is Lady Karyusai Shoko, one of the Witches of the Rose Division, known as 'Crimson Rose.' I'll have to choose my words carefully so I don't offend you."
Luo Zhen's calm words changed the entire atmosphere.
It became unbearably heavy.
But everything Luo Zhen said was true.
"...You really do know everything."
Shouko was silent for a long while before smiling sweetly and admitting it.
The Doll Master Number One in the Automaton Doll World, the world-renowned Karyusai, was one of the executives of the "Rose Society"—"Crimson Rose."
"Although I'm called an executive, I'm not particularly interested in the Society's affairs. I have even less interest in manipulating any regime from behind the scenes. If the Society weren't the oldest magical organization in existence, and joining it didn't give me access to all kinds of forbidden technology, I wouldn't have wanted to join it either."
Shouko spoke leisurely.
In other words, although Shouko was one