From the very beginning, everyone who knew the truth had wondered one thing—
Why had the Four Pillar Gods joined the Angel Hunting at all?
The Divine Lords sought to ascend to supremacy, but the Four Pillar Gods had no designs on the Supreme Holy Grail. They had not even sent substitutes like the Demons to fight for it. Yet the Four Pillar Gods had laid their plans earlier than almost any Divine Lord. Even the Multistar Four Pillars God Sect had existed to serve this matter, and Hiss had begun infiltrating Multistar Country eight years ago. If not for the unexpected variable that was Ash, the Four Pillar Gods would have held an almost limitless advantage in Multistar. It could be said that this Angel Hunting was a thousand-year conspiracy by the Four Pillar Gods and the six Divine Lords to deal with the Source Angel together.
What exactly did they want to do? What exactly did they want to obtain?
Now, everyone finally saw the answer.
"Rose...?" Ash stared blankly at the girl beside him. Rose had often worn business attire before, plain, capable, decisive, with a kind of forceful beauty. But now she was dazzling to the extreme, in pure-white lace gloves and lace garter stockings, a formal dress short in front and long in back, a luxurious, bright firework hair ornament, and tiny sequins beside her eyes. She was as pure as a Singer preparing to go onstage, and as wickedly alluring as a lover beneath ambiguous lights.
The only two things that still felt familiar to Ash were the Bow Ribbon Hair Tie pinned in her hair, and the expressionless gaze with which she watched him.
"I am the Firefly Splendor Princess, sovereign of Longing, memory, and will." Her slender fingers slid down to Ash's