Bondrewd's apparent opening of a gate to the Underworld had brought the battle between Katakuri's three brothers and Chaton to a halt.
But now that Page One had summoned the "Great Angel," things had become rather awkward.
"-Brother... this is my first time seeing it in person, but that's 'Descent,' isn't it?"
Watching the Great Angel "exchange pleasantries" with Bondrewd, Oven spoke quietly to Katakuri.
People always wanted to find something to say when they felt awkward. Even the heat coming off his body had cooled.
"...Yes. It should be..."
Katakuri "calmly" offered that utterly unhelpful reply.
Even his Observation Haki couldn't tell how it worked.
"..."
With the mirror shield on his back, Daifuku silently scratched the back of his head, his fingers rasping over his short golden buzz cut.
He normally counted as the cool, aloof type, but facing someone on his own side in this situation-especially someone absurdly powerful-all he could think was, Don't look over here. Don't look over here.
Unfortunately, everyone had temporarily stopped fighting, and the three of them were standing in an awkwardly conspicuous spot.
"Katakuri, I didn't expect to see you here."
Sephiroth's gaze swept their way after all.
The "Great Angel" identity he normally presented to the world was, after all, their "brother-in-law and ally." He couldn't pretend he hadn't seen them...
"...Sephiroth, we only came to discuss a business partnership..."
Katakuri offered a stiff explanation.
The Great Angel was their brother-in-law, making him closer to them than an ordinary ally.
And because of the other two members of the "Iron Triangle," the Great Angel and Bondrewd should have been enemies.
As for the whole question of who came first among those four, who was white and who wasn't, and who would GO and who wouldn't, Katakuri wanted no part of