"This is your Spirit World, so in theory, you can revive infinitely. Add the 10,000:1 flow of time, and you have at least a dozen hours to try. But Black Devil is Artifice Supremacy. In terms of combat skill, she's only a tiny bit worse than me. If you can suppress her, then there actually isn't much need for you to pay one-fourth in exchange for her power, because only Artifice Supremacy could possibly defeat her."
"And to Black Devil, you're a substitute for the Watcher. Those malicious and cruel thoughts of hers can't be used on the Watcher, so you've become the best vessel for her to vent on."
"So I have one more plan." Death Frenzy glanced at him. "I suppress her."
Ash opened his mouth. Only after a long while did he ask, "What do I have to pay?"
"In theory, for me to act, you'd need to pay your last one-fourth. But this time, I'm only moving inside the Spirit World, so you can keep the final one-fourth... As the price, you must pay with your memories of Sonia."
"Can't you—"
"No." Death Frenzy shook her head. "Black Devil and I are both dying embers of longing in the wind. Now she's descended into reality by burning your longing for Lysithea. If I want to deal with her, I also have to burn your longing for Sonia. That's the cost price."
Two methods. One was for him to find a way to suppress Black Devil himself, but there was absolutely no chance of success. Black Devil was genuine Artifice Supremacy, while he wasn't even a god lord yet. The other was to pay his memories of Sonia in exchange for Death Frenzy's intervention.
There was one last method, and that was to do nothing, to let