"—Hmph."
"Hmph, hahaha—hahahahahaha!!!"
Upon the castle walls, the sorcerer Amakusa Shirou looked down at the emptiness below, where only demonic nature remained, and burst into unrestrained laughter.
"What a—beautiful sight!"
"This human world, soon to be led to its end by my hand."
"Reject the defiled land—for this filthy human world is unbearable. Seek the Pure Land—for the bliss after death is what people desire!"
"Yet—! The Pure Land is nowhere to be found."
"The human world is the greatest illusion, the greatest defiled land."
"An endless hell."
"Haha—hahahahahahahaha!!!!"
He laughed loudly once more, his voice brimming with triumph and excitement.
"My Rejecting the Defiled Land Castle has taken shape! Therefore—"
"Awaken! Awaken! Awaken!!!"
"Obey the ritual bestowed by Satan! Begin formally!"
Buzz—
Rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble!!!!!
As though responding to the sorcerer's passion, the entire Rejecting the Defiled Land Castle emitted another pulse like that of a living creature. The price, however, was a violent tremor, as though it intended to tear everything upon the earth into pieces.
"Satan! Morning Star Satan! Demon King!"
"Now, please allow me to lend you a hand!"
"When the Rejecting the Defiled Land Castle beneath my feet activates—this world will end! Then, this pruned thing, as illusory as a bubble! Everything will fall into darkness in an instant! Afterward, the entire Defiled Land Castle will travel to a foreign land—that is—[Chaldea]."
"My vengeance shall never end! Whether it is the Human Order here or the proper Human Order where Chaldea resides—they must all be shattered together!!!"
"I will make it happen—that utterly different ending, the future belonging to the defeated, rising upon the true world!!!"
A madman.
Undeniably mad.
No matter what had caused him to develop such thoughts, he was now like a boulder rolling down a mountain, incapable of stopping.