Did I interrupt your lovey-dovey moment?

Being looked down upon by a god was utterly terrifying.

It was as though a mountain radiating divine light had suddenly pressed against your senses. Beneath it, every cell in your body could only tremble, leaving you helpless to resist the scrutiny and manipulation of a superior being.

"Damn it, a deceiver from another plane!"

"Stealing faith here again? Was the suffering inflicted a thousand years ago not enough?!"

With the man's traces gone from the area, and all memories of him erased from the ordinary humans' minds, the Divine Punishers could barely contain their fury.

"Hmph. Still, he didn't leave us entirely without clues."

"Erasing memories is easy. But can he completely erase his own aura?"

A Divine Punisher gathered a mass of peculiar black energy, condensed it, and clenched it in his hand.

The aura of that black energy matched the dark chakra Arata had used earlier to treat the relatively healthy young and middle-aged patients.

No, it was not an exact match.

Within that almost solid sphere of energy, there seemed to be strands of deep red, mingled through it like delicate capillaries.

Meanwhile, few residents of Sun Wheel City remained alive. The sight before them had shattered their composure and thrown their minds into chaos. Not one of them was in a normal state!

Many wanted to scream, to roar, to vent the outrage in their hearts.

But they could not.

The gods looming before them, the dismembered bodies strewn across the ground, and the crushing pressure on their nerves broke these fortunate—or unfortunate—survivors. Even their voices remained trapped in their throats, beyond their control!

"As gods, as enforcers, is this how you treat your own believers?"

"Trampling innocent lives with such reckless abandon will surely bring the judgment of the Divine Court's laws upon you!"