After his brief surprise at Rejedo's strength and youthful demeanor, Bethel turned his attention back to the matter at hand.
Of course, he had heard what the other party said earlier. He could also sense that he now had almost no anchors remaining in the Material World.
On one hand, after being corrupted and sealing himself away in the cosmos, he had been gone for far, far too long. Let alone people who knew him, even his descendants might no longer remember or believe in him.
Not to mention that he barely had any descendants left now.
On the other hand... there was the reason why he had so few descendants in the first place.
It was like someone forcing himself to attend class while utterly exhausted. He might try hard to take notes properly, only to realize upon waking up that they looked even more illegible than Ghost Painting.
While corrupted, Bethel had thought he was warning his descendants not to be deceived by his seemingly lucid self in a state of madness. But now that the corruption had been removed, he realized that his warning had actually been the far more lethal curse.
Even without his warning, there were only a handful of people in the family capable of coming to the cosmos to save him. They might not even have believed he was in danger and come to rescue him.
As a Sequence One Angel King—and one from the Door pathway, the best at escaping—he would most likely have been able to get away even if an ordinary Sequence Zero tried to kill him. Moreover, Sequence One practically did not die of old age, so his descendants would not have worried too much about him.
Instead, his warning had caused one descendant after another to die. With