"It looks like we're saved! Great!" Kelly cheered, and Ruby breathed a sigh of relief.
Hank stared excitedly at Ash's transformation and the demon-head meteor hammer in his hand. Once again, he had witnessed the Progenitor's might.
It filled him with fervor.
Only Pablo stroked his severed foot, his thoughts heavy. He seemed to feel that things were not so simple.
After all, they had provoked Greater Evil Spirits—and more than one at that.
But after Ruby and Hank explained what Greater Evil Spirits were to the group, he gained a clearer understanding of those things.
That so-called Progenitor.
Could he truly defeat those Greater Evil Spirits? If he could, then why did he keep letting those evil spirits run rampant?
And if he truly had such a good relationship with Ash, why had he allowed Ash to suffer attack after attack?
There seemed to be some unspeakable motive behind it—or perhaps he was simply toying with them.
Toying with them!
The moment that word surfaced in Pablo's mind, his body swayed uncontrollably.
If the so-called Progenitor really was like that...
He even suspected that the Progenitor was a Greater Evil Spirit himself—an evil spirit that had betrayed the world of evil spirits.
Pablo quickly voiced his suspicions.
But everyone opposed him.
"Pablo, you're being too sensitive. Evil spirits hate humans beyond measure. If that Progenitor were an evil spirit, Ash would have died the moment he returned to the Middle Ages," Kelly said.
"That's right. You might not know this, but the Darkness Clan's Marrow Eaters he inherited made enormous contributions to stopping evil spirits from invading reality. To put it bluntly, without those Marrow Eaters, the world might have been destroyed long ago," Ruby said with a frown.
Hank found it even harder to bear.
All he had