"But! Kashu, he..."
Just as Yuyi, who had been grabbed and held back, was about to say something else, the person in the pit stood up.
[--Roar!!!!]
"This is... Chievil?"
Divine stared at the figure before him in something of a daze. It was familiar—far too familiar. That day had been night, so he had not been able to see clearly, and that was why he had never realized that the three-eyed figure had been Chievil. Which meant the child back then...
"So that's how it is. No wonder your memories became such a mess. No wonder you once said you were sealed away, and that's why more than two thousand years passed. Maybe this is the reason. Because as a child, you couldn't control this power, and that was why you were sealed, Kashu."
Divine watched the Chievil before him warily and took up a fighting stance, once again sizing up Chievil in front of him. Though he could recognize that it was Chievil, the Chievil before him was somewhat different from the one he knew.
The chains and shackles that had originally bound his entire body had all vanished at some point. His build was even sturdier than in his first form, completely unlike the physique a child should have, and his armor was wilder and sharper. The horns on his head were even more pointed and twisted, sharper claws jutted out from his fingers and toes, and the true form of the third eye on his forehead was the "Eye of Chirame" Kashu had always worn around his neck. Chievil's figure now was even closer to that mythical demonic beast—Chirame!
"Bro Yu, I'll tell you one more piece of information about Chievil. Chievil actually has a second form, and in that form I lose my mind! So