"Baudelaire, I'll be straight with you. The most help I can offer is to remove one seal for you."
Seeing Baudelaire playing dead and refusing to answer from within his Divine Kingdom, Bethel's temper flared as well:
"If you're planning to make me admit I failed to keep my promise, then force me to step in and deal with that new Church of the God of War, you've got the wrong idea!"
Although the new Church of the God of War had no Sequence Zero in its apparent lineup and seemed to consist only of the five former Angel Kings, several of them no longer even possessed the strength of Angel Kings.
But the very existence of such a group was abnormal.
The five of them had once been five of the eight Angel Kings who followed the Ancient Sun God, and they were also the five who had never truly intended to betray the Sun God.
After the Ancient Sun God's resurrection plan had failed, facing their three old colleagues of Wind White Wisdom, who had divided up the Ancient Sun God and become gods, even if they still had ambitions, they should not have displayed them so openly.
Yet they had done exactly that. And after their alliance had come into the open, the first one they targeted had been the God of War, rather than any of Wind White Wisdom.
Those five had practically written the words "there's something wrong here" on their heads. How could he possibly wade into such muddy waters?
What if the Outer Gods were behind this?
He had not even escaped an Outer God's corruption and control for a month. Even if he had learned nothing from the first setback and wanted another, he was not that eager to gorge himself on