Chapter Eighty: Fated Death-I'll Do What I Must! / Chapter Eighty-One: The Witch Who Controls Her Own Destiny

In other words, Saigō was, to a certain extent, a truly immortal demon.

Smack—

Nangong Nayue slapped away the hand Saigō had been using to mess with her face and glared at him. "...Don't casually pinch my cheeks. I'm not a child."

"Yes, yes, you're an adult. Even if you look like a child, you're still a mature twenty-year-old young woman."

Saigō replied perfunctorily, and his attitude made Nangong Nayue grit her teeth.

The Witch of the Void turned around, leaving Saigō with a graceful back view. Walking across the thick ice, she said, "...Cain's altar is at the very bottom of the Foundation Gate."

"...That is also where Holy Annihilation is located. Shall we go take a look now?"

The five fingers of Saigō's right hand flexed back and forth, as though reminiscing about the softness of Nangong Nayue's skin. He nodded. "...Of course we should."

"...But before that, there's one more matter to settle. Don't you think the most important person among the members of the Artificial Island Management Corporation is absent?"

The Witch of the Void stopped walking. Her lovely brows rose slightly, and after considering it, she said, "...The Yase Family?"

"That's right. As one of the families that invested the most in establishing String God Island, the Yase Family has always held this artificial island's authority."

"...Little Natsuki, wait here for a moment. I'll deal with the Yase Family's director, and while I'm at it, transfer the assets of the directors we killed earlier into a fund under our control."

A demon naturally had to do things in a demon's way. Saigō could use political or economic means to destroy his opponents.

But at the same time, he could also solve matters through the simplest form of force.

Compared to the trouble of the former,