The Appearance of the New Light Screen Image, Jeanne d'Arc Alter Looks Forward to Meeting

The New Mysteries reacted fiercely. Annoyance, resentment, rage—every sort of emotion made them want to destroy that insolent fellow.

However, they could not.

Because that insolent fellow was strong—stronger than all of them combined.

Because she was a "Progenitor."

She was the first special individual among the New Mysteries, an entity born after absorbing vast amounts of negative human energy and converting it into mysterious energy, then combining it with the Napoleonic Empire's countless visions of and faith in Saint Joan.

In essence, such an existence had already come infinitely close to the level of the "gods" revered by the New Mysteries—the higher Mysteries. She was fundamentally different from New Mysteries like them, who had been transformed by the Qliphoth Tree.

Though they were later "products," there was a rule in mecha stories: mass-produced units could never beat experimental units. This group of New Mysteries could not escape that rule either.

So, with their "Lord" already down and out, the New Mysteries temporarily leaderless, and even their strategist Demiurge having died worse than a dog, the New Mystery race had gone from templates like the Phantom Troupe and Akatsuki to a MINI limited-edition Black Organization.

Tokyo, Akihabara, Jeanne d'Arc Alter's residence.

Jeanne d'Arc Alter opened her eyes with an angry puff of her cheeks. "What a bunch of nonsensical idiots. Why did this stupid New Mystery Council want me to join? I'm not like those people at all. This Qliphoth Tree or whatever—I've never even seen it, okay? Why should I worry about such an embarrassing loser who got dealt with so easily?"

Muttering those complaints, Jeanne d'Arc Alter turned on her computer, opened her messaging app, found her online friend Gudao, whom she had marked as "Special Attention," and sent him a grumbling message.

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