In Heart Devil City, most of the puppets had already been dragged to the Central High Tower, becoming nourishment for the gestation of the new Devil Emperor. A small number still hung in the sky, swaying in the wind.
A puppet with a Monocle over his right eye stubbornly raised his right hand and adjusted it... Only after completing that motion did his hand suddenly fall, his eyes turning vacant and his expression becoming utterly blank.
In the final instant before his thoughts came to a halt, he transmitted what had happened to him through the connection of Fate to a duplicate specially responsible for processing information.
There was more than one duplicate in Heart Devil City that had suffered such an experience.
Hundreds and thousands of final messages were compiled and summarized by the Communicator duplicates, refined, and sent to the Main Body.
Inside a tavern, a lean young man wearing a Pointed Soft Hat sat in a luxurious chair, the table before him laden with dishes of every kind.
He raised a jade wine cup, about to taste the clear, emerald liquor within, but stopped abruptly just before the cup reached his lips.
After remaining still for quite some time, Amon finally drained the wine in one gulp, set down the cup, and revealed a trace of confusion. "What is Heart Heavenly Devil Emperor up to? He suddenly attacked everyone in Heart Devil City..."
With a thought, the will of the Main Body instantly covered a duplicate relatively close to Heart Devil City.
This Amon was in the middle of a vast black forest. Before long, countless specks of starlight lit up around him.
In the sky, in the soil, atop great trees, beneath bushes... countless creatures fell dead, while the starlight gathering from their corpses caused this