Looking at Toneri's expression, Li smiled faintly. "You mean, why I came to this world?"
Toneri nodded vigorously. "That's right. Your strength surpassed this world's by an unimaginable margin long ago. You must be someone from Moonlight Princess's homeland, right? Although Lord Hamura once warned us that Otsutsuki Kinshiki would one day come here and take back everything that originally belonged to them, because we owed it to them... no matter what, I never thought that person's strength would reach your level."
"Otsutsuki Kinshiki?" Li rubbed his nose. "Don't worry. I'll protect this world."
Hearing Li say that, Toneri's mouth twitched. Trembling, he pushed himself to his feet. "Just who are you?"
"Hmm..." Li scratched the back of his head. "Who am I? To people like you, I'm probably... a god?"
"A god?" Toneri's mouth twitched again. "Well, I suppose so. With strength like yours, calling you a god wouldn't be an exaggeration. But why did you come here...?"
"That... it's actually rather embarrassing to say. I was thrown into this world by someone." Li spoke slowly, then glanced at Toneri. "Those two were definitely stronger than me. In fact, if they wanted to, killing me in an instant would be easy."
Toneri's eyes widened at Li's words, as though he could not believe them. "Strong enough to kill you instantly? How is that possible?! If beings like that wanted to destroy this world, wouldn't it be effortless?"
Li's mouth twitched. There were plenty of people who could easily destroy this world. There was no need for it to be those two, was there? From what those two had said, they were Elite Guards of the Supreme Gods of Order and Creation. Since they were already at the Elite Guard level, they were probably stronger than Saints by an unimaginable