Different Intentions! Partners Who Cooperate Perfectly Aren't Necessarily Comrades with Shared Goals

Following this course of events, it was as if someone were helping Mephisto carry out his plan without him having to lift a finger himself. That would cause many factions to misjudge the situation. For an old schemer like Mephisto, who always kept a card up his sleeve, it should have been the perfect development.

Yet Mephisto, that old schemer, felt deeply uneasy!

In truth, his plan was neither complicated nor secretive. At least, every other faction understood his intentions on the surface. And precisely because they understood, the many factions qualified to intervene had chosen to stand by, eat popcorn, and watch the show. Even the Mount Celestia faction that had intervened before had merely sent a minor piece to play against Mephisto, rather than deploying the Vatican's trump card to intercept his plan.

By this point, all factions had tacitly accepted the apparent final outcome: something as dangerous as the "San Venganza Contract" should not continue to exist!

The result of Mephisto's plan would be that the ambitious Blackheart used the "San Venganza Contract" to open up a new Hell dimension, only to be slain by his Ghost Rider, Johnny Blaze!

This way, he would use the "San Venganza Contract" and Ghost Rider to deal with Blackheart, while the "San Venganza Contract"—which threatened every faction—would be destroyed in the process.

Although it seemed that Mephisto suffered the greatest loss in this plan, not only destroying the "San Venganza Contract" he had painstakingly created, but also sacrificing his own precious son, how could a demon lord like Mephisto ever make a losing deal?

Now that the "San Venganza Contract" had lost its secrecy and been exposed before all eyes, it could no longer remain in existence for his own use. Since something useless and troublesome would only become more