After a long while, Noah finally came back to his senses.
It looked at the Spirit Medium, whose face was full of encouragement and whose eyes were friendly, and vaguely understood something. "You want to use this condition to trick me into working for you?"
Jiang Xia's hand, which was petting it, stiffened slightly. He quickly corrected it with due rigor. "What do you mean, trick? This is a mutually willing cooperation."
Noah lay listlessly on the floor and shook its head. "But something like me is far too advanced for this era. I shouldn't exist in this world—to be honest, after completing the plan to 'Restart Japan,' I intend to destroy myself..."
"Watch how you talk." Jiang Xia pinched its face. As expected, it felt like jelly, only firmer and more kneadable.
With one hand, he held Noah up; with the other, he grabbed the Mermaid, who was watching the show nearby. He brought the two Ghosts together and looked at Noah. "Aren't you the same kind of thing as them? By your logic, should they not exist either?"
The Mermaid had been hugging a clump of Killing Intent and resting just now, so she had not heard how the Spirit Medium had been luring Ghosts over.
Now that Jiang Xia had "explained," she felt like she had been insulted. She slapped Noah with her tail, then turned and swam away with icy hauteur.
Noah, who had been innocently smacked: "..."
It covered its face with its tiny hands, recalled what it had just said, and felt there might indeed have been some ambiguity. "No, I didn't mean they shouldn't exist. I just..."
"Then neither should you." Jiang Xia felt that the issue was not a big one.
"The power to disrupt the world has always existed. It's just