"My strength...?"
Adam thought for a moment.
"If He doesn't awaken, then there's no one in this world I can't beat... though there are some people I'd rather not face."
Adam, the Sun God, frowned.
"Could you describe that more precisely?"
There was no room for carelessness with such a crucial question.
"By 'rather not face,' do you mean... you wouldn't lose? Or that you'd have to pay a certain price to win?"
"Uh, it's not the usual kind of win-or-lose situation. It's more like... you know? It's just, a very rare kind of... feeling that's hard to accurately describe or sum up in words."
Adam wore a strange expression.
"Think back to that era. A boxer facing someone with a gun bare-handed would be called unable to win against them. But if he faced someone covered in shit, holding a mop soaked in shit..."
"It's not that he couldn't beat him, but he'd always feel that fighting him would cost him something more important than victory."
Among the Outer Gods, the Desire Mother-Tree was not even the most mentally contaminating one. It could only be said that the strong in the universe were terrifying indeed.
Adam, the Sun God's expression also turned strange.
"Ah... I think I understand."
That really was difficult to describe.
Unnameable in another sense.
Still, to look down upon those Outer Gods in such a manner, was the being before them... from another world?
Adam, the Sun God, gathered his thoughts and continued.
"Then what if He awakens?"
"Mm, then things get troublesome."
Adam's fingers tapped against the armrest of the sofa.
"Just as you said, long-term plans are often driven by profit. Although I proposed the plan for world peace to make the environment better and more normal, I did indeed have my own