For the time being, Hill did not need to speculate about the secrets of the Black Mystery Tower. Although Rute was clearly up to something, he definitely was not on the Devils' side.
As for what was hidden in the shadows, Hill did not really care... They were nothing more than means of struggling for the future.
No matter how much sorrow and suffering, anger and hatred those means concealed, to Hill, they were merely a sigh-inducing story. He had no need to dig into all the hidden details within.
Just like Telashir's tens of thousands of years of resistance and struggle, which, to people from other worlds, were no more than a history book... Read what was written and leave it at that; there was no need to investigate whose figures stood behind all the joys and sorrows of history.
In any case, the stronger the hidden forces in this world were, the happier Hill was.
As for whether the River Styx would be happy too, or whether the Red Dragon and his daughter could completely control this world... what did any of that have to do with Hill?
He simply did not want the neighbor next door to be a vicious one who came to his home to wreak havoc whenever they had nothing better to do. Did that mean he also had to care about where they worked, what school they attended, or even how they decorated their house?
Whoever cared could deal with it. Hill did not.
There was another matter that did catch Hill's attention: whose betrayal had shaken Rute so deeply?
Yes, merely shaken, not left unable to accept it.
Rute probably did not want to see this outcome, but he had long been mentally prepared for it and would not be devastated by