"Saintess's attendant?"
"No, that couldn't be it... Maybe Yelagund had just casually taken on that form...?"
"Yeah! After all, Yal had always been so diligent..."
"Why aren't you saying anything?"
"No... I suddenly remembered, that Yal... What was her full name? Who were her parents? How long had she been an attendant?"
"No idea..."
"What about you?"
"I don't know either..."
"Divine power! This had to be Yelagund's divine power! It made us overlook it!"
"We're doomed! Had I ever offended Yal before?"
The people of Siracusa had actually guessed right.
Because both Yal and Yelagund truly possessed the ability to hypnotize and implant mental suggestions.
Otherwise, how could no one have noticed anything strange about a mere attendant existing for centuries, with every generation of Saintess having the exact same attendant?
And besides—
After transforming into human form, Yelagund flashed directly to the summit of Siracusa's snowy mountain, appearing before Chuxue and Yal.
Yet Yelagund ignored her counterpart from this Worldline and headed straight for Chuxue.
Before Chuxue could even process what was happening, Yelagund reached out and touched her face.
She pinched and tugged at it from side to side. Only after Chuxue's cheeks had been kneaded bright red did Yal finally react, rushing over and shoving Yelagund away.
"What are you doing?!"
Yal sheltered Chuxue behind her like a hen protecting her chick. "What do you want with my child?"
Chuxue, who had barely regained her senses: "?"
Child? When had my seniority dropped that much?
But after looking at the two identical-looking women before her... Chuxue kept her mouth shut, not daring to say a word.
"Not Sea Creatures... Thank goodness, she hadn't been transformed by the Sea Creatures..."
Yelagund did not get angry after being pushed away. She merely kept muttering those words, then looked numbly at Yal. "My children... they're all gone... I couldn't save a single one..."
Yal: "..."
Yal had initially felt some hostility toward Yelagund, believing that her counterpart from another Worldline had come to steal her child.
But after hearing Yelagund's words, that trace of emotion vanished completely.
Instead, Yal asked sternly, "What happened?"
If the Yelagund before her truly was herself from another Worldline, then based on what she knew of herself, even if she died, she would never allow her children to be harmed.
So it definitely was not that Yelagund had failed to act, or had simply allowed the tragedy to happen. Rather, even after doing everything she could, Yelagund had been powerless to stop it.
If that was truly the case, then this was no longer just Yelagund's problem. It was something that could very well happen to Yal as well.
Hearing that, Yelagund said, "Let's go kill Sargol."
Yal: "?"
Hold it right there!
At least start from the beginning! How had this suddenly jumped to wiping out an entire country?