In Sonia Solom's understanding, the most powerful being had been the Ancient Sun God who called himself God—the one who had killed him.
Although the Eight Great Ancient Gods ranged from single-pathway Sequence Zero to triple-pathway Sequence Zero, the fact that they had been able to stand as equals in that brutal era showed that they had reached a delicate balance.
That was to say, even if there were differences in strength between them, the strongest had not been certain of killing the weakest without paying a considerable price.
Yet when the Ancient Sun God had killed him, although Sonia Solom had wounded him as well, it could not be considered much of a price at all. This showed that the other party's strength had already qualitatively surpassed that of the Eight Great Ancient Gods.
And there were at least nine such beings in the Café!
Under such circumstances, Sonia Solom truly could not think of any reason not to choose the Café.
As for the so-called contract of servitude, he was Sequence Zero after all. Even if he signed one, he would not truly be worked like a beast of burden.
It was something of a dark joke: this contract of servitude was far more generous than the employment contracts signed by over eighty percent of Backlund's residents—incidentally, there were no employment contracts in the slums.
Sonia Solom's life story was much shorter than those of the other Sequence Zeros. After all, he had not even lived through an entire era before his death. Once his story had been told, everyone knew that the few who had existed during and before the Dark Era had all been introduced.
What came after that was the Third Era. If it were named after the beginning of that era, it should have