But Jietisikoki answered with an absent-minded chuckle:
"Heh heh, foolish?"
"No, you're the foolish one, Ye Chen."
"If the Holy God Angrinonde weren't holding the fort, would the mortals on your side really be so well-behaved?"
"If those old fossils of the Holy Light Church hadn't been influenced by the power of holy light and completely forgotten the 'seven deadly sins' they possess as humans, would your ruling class really be so selfless?"
"Do you know, Ye Chen? In my homeland, quite a few 'churches' and 'religious orders' once appeared in the name of gods as well."
"But most of them had no ability to restrain their own desires. Instead, in the name of divine revelation, they committed every vile deed imaginable—bullying the weak, plundering wealth, suppressing science, upholding their rule, longing to wipe out every heretic in the world who did not believe in their faith. In truth, they were no different from the Delight Theater."
"And these are precisely the truest faces humans are most likely to reveal in the presence of 'freedom.'"
Ye Chen replied with some impatience in his voice:
"Even so, that is merely the story of your so-called 'old humans.' The reality on our side is that 'the Holy God truly exists.' There is still no meaning in conflating the two."
With a mocking expression, Jietisikoki declared:
"No, there is still meaning."
"This concerns another 'revelation' the Divine Artifact bestowed upon me."
"Ye Chen, listen carefully."
"Holy. Light. Is. Not. Eternal."
"The only reason It appeared before you as an outsider was to prevent all of space-time from being utterly destroyed by the Abyss."
"Once the 'anomaly' known as the Abyss is completely eradicated, holy light will return to Its point of origin, leaving the distant future entirely for humanity to rule on its