The Light Screen footage now showed Kallen Kaslana and Otto.
After several years of eastern campaigns, both Kallen Kaslana and Otto had grown considerably, maturing from a young man and woman into full-fledged adults.
However, neither of them was in particularly good spirits.
Even those with extraordinary power would grow weary after prolonged warfare. And although Destiny's eastern campaign proclaimed itself a war for justice, for the gods, a great war—
the reality could be compared to the Crusades, even the heavily romanticized Crusades found in entertainment media.
After all, Destiny possessed formidable power and exercised some restraint over its troops, preventing them from becoming an entirely depraved army.
But even so, the burning, killing, and plundering had never ceased. The various factions participating in Destiny's eastern campaign freely looted the occupied territories, and all of it was permitted—considered perfectly natural.
At least, in Western values, plundering heretics was only natural.
Yet for Kallen, who held justice and beauty in her heart, this was undoubtedly unacceptable. Whenever she encountered such things, she tried to stop them, even causing quite a few incidents as a result.
But in an eastern expeditionary force of such enormous scale, how much could Kallen accomplish alone?
Moreover, Destiny's higher-ups would not allow Kallen to act as she pleased. Though she was already Destiny's strongest Valkyrie and bore the title of "Saintess," in the eyes of those in power, Kallen was nothing more than a tool.
And when a tool did not work properly, naturally it had to be managed.
So whenever the burning, killing, and looting began later on, Kallen would be transferred away directly, preventing her from interfering with the others. Though Kallen knew of her allies' evil deeds, she could do nothing. Even if she defied orders and rushed back, she could not