"This, this is too terrifying, too..." Revolting. Mai Zenin instinctively rubbed her arms, every hair on her body standing on end.
"Yes, it's different from before. Completely different." Kasumi Miwa was trembling too. "They're no longer on the side of justice. They're on the side of evil, demons who destroy others."
Exactly. How were the Pure Humans' struggles, their fight to survive, any different from those of Homo sapiens? They had admired the unity of Homo sapiens and their fighting spirit, yet now they feared the Pure Humans for those same qualities.
Yes, feared them.
Because this time, they were the enemy.
All that unity, all that resistance, all that defiance would become the sharpest blades, driven into the chests of Tsunayoshi Sawada and An Xinyi.
"Ha, what a joke." Satoru Gojo said it, but he could not laugh. The irony was simply too bitter. "This time, the glory of humanity belongs to the Pure Humans."
"What does that make An? The demon king who needs to be defeated?"
Suguru Geto instinctively covered his lower lip with his hand. He, too, felt genuinely sick.
Suguru Geto hated monkeys. Suguru Geto despised monkeys. But even a massacre among monkeys was far too tragic.
The savior had ultimately become the destroyer.
That sense of inversion unsettled Suguru Geto too. Reluctant as he was to admit it, he at least acknowledged what An Xinyi had accomplished by repeating the cycle endlessly for the world.
Yet that only made the scene before him all the more ironic and sorrowful.
"The savior ultimately becomes a demon..." Suguru Geto suddenly gave a bitter smile. There was something familiar about that feeling. Of course, he knew he fell short of An Xinyi, but they were both obsessive people. An Xinyi could destroy the Pure Humans for Homo