"Rest assured. The Purifiers will stand with mortals."
"We will help you eliminate that blasphemous half-blood and set the world right."
Kenis smiled faintly, then changed tack.
"But..."
"That Lightning Knight and her strange beasts are too powerful. No one can defeat them head-on."
"So we'll teach you every trick you can use."
Honestly, the sight of that woman smiling irritated Yan Huan for no reason he could explain.
"She's up to something again."
"I can't take this. Let's go back there and kill her right now."
As he spoke, Yan Huan moved to draw on Oloronis's divine power again.
"History is already settled," Sorabis said gravely.
"The power of Years has never held the authority to change the past."
"You would do better to save your strength for the battle ahead."
Feng Jin's heart sank.
"To resist, those believers of the old faith stopped at nothing. They even worked with the Purifiers..."
Sorabis looked at Feng Jin. "Those assassins were vicious, but they weren't fools."
"They never intended to go after Seneos."
"They had no sincere desire to help the oppressed."
"The ones they truly wanted to purge were the innocent Chrysos Heirs hidden among the Children of the Sky."
"Jasynthis, someone as kind as you would have been humiliated and killed by them back then."
"I understand." Feng Jin nodded slightly.
Tribbie had told her plenty about the Purifiers.
"Before the Journey of the Spark began, the Chrysos Heirs waged war over the 'rightful' claim to the oracle. Many of Teacher Tiba's other selves were caught up in it too."
"But... I suppose it was understandable that people back then saw golden blood as a curse."
"Yet Seneos... what must she have felt as she watched it all unfold?"
To end the tragedy of the Sky People, she