Shido roared at him.
The other man answered calmly.
"All of this is to fulfill our long-cherished wish. We've spent thirty years on it."
"Thirty years...?"
Shido could hardly believe it.
Isaac looked to be in his thirties, so he could set that aside for now.
But Ellen looked like a teenager, no matter how he looked at her!
Could a Realizer slow aging too? If so, that was incredible.
"Isaac, this isn't the time to talk about that."
Ellen frowned in displeasure.
"Ah, sorry, sorry. Take me for treatment first, then."
With that, Isaac smiled at Shido again.
"Until next time, Takamiya... No, Shido Itsuka."
"Did you say Takamiya...?"
Shido's expression grew troubled.
Takamiya was Mana's surname.
And Mana was his biological younger sister, so it should have been his original surname too.
Isaac had called him Takamiya without thinking. Did he know something about Shido's past?
But before Shido could ask, Ellen took Isaac with her, slashed through the wall, and left.
Before leaving, Isaac did not forget to tell the girls,
"I'll leave these Inverse Spirits to you. Don't disappoint me."
Then he vanished into the sky.
Only Lingmeng, Shido, Miku, and the three Spirits in their Inverse Forms remained inside the DEM Building.
"What is that guy trying to do...?"
Lingmeng muttered as she watched Isaac leave.
Then she looked at Tohka and the others.
Even if their Astral Dresses and Angels had changed, they were still themselves, weren't they?
Clinging to that thought, Lingmeng asked tentatively,
"Tohka... Are you all right?"
But Yoshino and Yamai said nothing.
Tohka, meanwhile, replied with a cold expression.
"Who are you people? Why am I here? And what have you been talking about with that man?"
"—!" ×3
Lingmeng, Shido, and Miku all stared at her in shock.
"Miss