The girls woke one after another, and both Raiden Mei and Fujimaru Tachibana had undergone obvious changes.
The two seemed to have matured greatly overnight, gaining a deeper inner strength.
As for Fu Hua, although she had not changed much, that was because she herself had already experienced so much and had long since reached her complete form. It was only due to her lost memories and the damage to her body that she was temporarily unable to recover her ultimate form.
Now, Fu Hua was troubled by the Herrscher of Sentience's attitude of rejecting her—in Fu Hua's view, the Herrscher of Sentience's unwillingness to communicate with her and her direct expulsion from the realm of consciousness were acts of rejection.
Then, standing before the awakened girls, Gilgamesh crossed his arms over his chest and said, "It seems you all gained quite a lot over the course of this night. Then, Tachibana, you have obtained the trump card that will decide our victory as well, haven't you?"
Though phrased as a question, his words were a certainty.
Fujimaru Tachibana nodded. She searched around on her person, then pulled out the card belonging to the god Tiamat.
It had originally been a card depicting the deep sea, but it had now changed. There was an additional figure within it—the girl Tiamat. With her arms wrapped around her legs, she floated curled up in the depths of the sea, her eyes closed as though asleep.
The others were all somewhat astonished at this sight. After all, everyone had seen this card before, and there had been no one inside it in the past. Yet now, there was a mysterious girl with horns and a tail.
Moreover, even through the card, they could sense the sacred and mysterious aura it conveyed. Anyone who