The many streams of radiance around Angel Nai flowed, then suddenly changed.
A handsome blond young man leaped out from within, his sword shifting rapidly before blocking the hand Twin Demon had clawed down at him.
"This is... Cause of the Past?" Twin Demon possessed causality-related abilities himself and had naturally studied causality in depth.
So-called causality was merely a strong connection.
Causality-type abilities were fundamentally the manipulation of the strong connection between cause and effect.
By severing, accelerating, directing, grafting, sealing, storing, reversing, recreating, contaminating, altering, or contradicting them, one changed the strong connections between things, which in turn changed the things themselves.
For example, the Twins' trait, "Eye of Forbidden Fruit," observed a certain future effect and then sealed it away.
This involved causality methods such as severance and sealing. He severed and sealed the strong connection between Angel Nai swinging his sword and using Death Aura Hoopoe, leaving Angel Nai with the cause of swinging his sword but unable to produce the effect.
At this moment, Angel Nai's transformation involved the recreation and contradiction of causality.
The young man who appeared was named Naimus Anin.
He was Angel A's former self, as well as the genius Paladin who had appeared at Sea Blue Whale.
At present, he was merely at the peak of the Steel Breed, because that had been his state until he was sacrificed.
Yet Twin Demon's claw, which could nearly crush most Golden Breeds to death, could do nothing to Naimus Anin.
Because causality had become contradictory.
Angel Nai's "Self-Protocol" had transformed a segment of causality related to himself from the past and used it to replace his current self.
Thus, Angel Nai had become Naimus Anin.
Naimus Anin was the cause of the past, and his effect was likewise an effect of the