"Miss Evernight, your eyes have been fixed on your goal all this time. I'm afraid you never realized..."
Cyrene spoke sincerely, her voice like a babbling stream, trying to flow into the other woman's heart.
"In this life, a tremendous variable appeared on Amphoreus."
"Heh, did you think I hadn't considered that?" A wicked curve formed at Evernight's lips.
"Yan Huan, acting as the Savior, intervened in this world's fate. Nothing more."
"But so what? That alone is nowhere near enough to change my mind."
"No, it wasn't The Nameless." Cyrene gently shook her head, a faint smile touching her lips.
"Do you remember? It was precisely because of the Savior's forceful actions that Okhema's true master left the Holy City..."
"Caesar paid with her life to add a rule to the final [Re-Creation]."
"Only then could Kryudera ensure that Amphoreus would not become a sacrifice in the galaxy's conflict—"
"Even if it could only exist in the form of the Iron Tomb, this world could stand among the stars on its own, just as she wished."
"...Oh?" Evernight raised an eyebrow slightly, seemingly intrigued. "And how does she plan to do that?"
Cyrene looked at her and gave a clear, calm answer.
"It's simple."
"If anything abnormal occurs during [Re-Creation], the command of [Law] will immediately remove all outside factors."
"—Whether [Remembrance] or [Trailblaze], the twelve Core Flames will complete the final [Re-Creation] through the purest form of [Destruction]."
Hearing this, Evernight pondered for a moment and instantly understood everything.
Kryudera's modified Scepter Protocol had actually included such a resolute private Edict.
"A desperate gamble... Vicious Caesar. Could she have noticed that [Remembrance] had been making arrangements in secret all along?"
"That wasn't the case." Cyrene shook her head again, dismissing her guess.
"You deceived everyone. It was even