Ialdabaoth? That sounds familiar. Wasn't that the name of a character in some novel or anime? Whoever named him really didn't try very hard!
But Roselle actually brought a Devil egg out of the Abyss... and hatched it. He had some nerve! Wasn't he afraid something might go wrong and drag Intis into it?
Thinking this, Klein felt once again how different he was from the emperor. He shook his head, picked up the last page, and read carefully:
"November 12. That little thing that hatched yesterday couldn't have eaten some magic growth fertilizer, could it? How else did he grow so fast? Overnight, he went from an infant to a toddler of three or four...
"When I asked him about it, he asked back in his baby voice, 'Isn't that normal?'... I suddenly feel as though I no longer know what 'normal' means.
"November 13. Ialdabaoth is already old enough for school, but I haven't arranged for anyone to teach him. For all I know, he'll look like a university graduate the day after tomorrow...
"November 14. For no apparent reason, I dreamed of Green—Green, who died on that nameless island... Is it an omen?"
He dreamed of Green? I remember an earlier diary entry mentioning him. Roselle called him the smartest of us, but after he discovered that Primordial Island, he grew stranger and stranger, until he died in the Fog Sea...
And the Devil named Ialdabaoth came from the Abyss deep in the Fog Sea... Could there be a connection?
Klein held the diary page and pondered in silence.
In fact, Abner hadn't made any connection at first. But after reading the information the God of Knowledge had sent down in Sefirah Castle, he began to form a theory.
Ialdabaoth was likely a contingency Farbauti had