After leaving the household affairs in Asaka Akie's hands, Fang Cheng set off with Kanzaki Rin early that morning.
Kanzaki Rin was driving. As soon as they got on the road, she tossed him a pile of documents to read, all of them detailing the Truth Cult.
It was a doomsday-cult preaching the end of the world. It was classified as a cult not only in Area 11 but internationally as well. Unlike the Ultimate Bliss Cult, which only made a little trouble in Area 11, the Truth Cult had expanded overseas, establishing branches in countries all over the world. Their size aside, the sheer ambition was frightening.
The founder of the Truth Cult was Asahara Nikko, originally an ordinary man who later claimed he had attained "ultimate liberation" in the Himalayas and become "a psychic capable of floating in the air."
He claimed that anyone could gain psychic powers just like him, as long as they followed his instructions and practiced.
At first, the Truth Cult had been nothing more than an ordinary yoga class, but Asahara Nikko quickly transformed it into a religion and made it increasingly extreme.
In a world with supernatural powers, it was easy to start a cult, because plenty of people believed in that sort of thing.
Once the Truth Cult had become a cult, it forced its followers to donate all their possessions. It also sold strange items—Asahara Nikko's hair, blood, and even his bathwater—as holy relics at exorbitant prices, while making its followers undergo grueling religious practices.
Followers who questioned the cult or tried to leave were secretly imprisoned and murdered.
Through all manner of horrific methods, the Truth Cult had made its followers highly obedient.
Asahara Nikko was an extreme madman. He believed humanity was divided into God-Humans and Animal Humans,