"Mikun, do you really think...?"
Kuize posed this question to Mikun.
"That Serfoshe spared you alone back then merely because he looked down on you, merely for such a flimsy reason as arrogance?"
Mikun remained silent.
"..."
Kuize chuckled softly.
"Don't be stupid."
"It was all nothing more than a delusion born from that laughable shred of self-respect of yours."
"No matter how arrogant Serfoshe might have been in his daily life, he would never let his guard down when dealing with prey."
"And the reason he allowed you to escape, deliberately leaving you—a potential threat—in this world..."
"Was, in the final analysis, because you still had some 'use.'"
At those words, Mikun's expression abruptly changed, and he immediately murmured in a thunderous voice:
"Use?"
Kuize nodded for emphasis.
"That's right. Use—the use you had in Serfoshe's eyes."
"It was the same reason why he spared my life after defeating me back then."
"Just as I said before, Serfoshe had already reached the realm of Omniscience."
"If something like 'fatalism' truly exists in this world..."
"Then Serfoshe is the one controlling that concept from behind the scenes."
"He could not only see through the past and the future, but also manipulate the past and the future."
"If the fate of the entire world were compared to a play, then Serfoshe would be the director hidden behind the curtain."
"To sum it up, everything we have experienced thus far was all part of the blueprint he had envisioned."
"Because he knew that you would one day become the Headmaster of Delight Theater and bring countless disasters and threats to our Holy Light Pure Land, Serfoshe spared you back then."
"Because he knew that I would one day become the commander of the Auling Hunter Corps and lead the effort to stop