She had no idea why she was seeing these things. By all rights, the experiences in those scenes had absolutely nothing to do with this Weird.
Her first reaction was that he must be up to some trick again.
Perhaps he wanted to create an illusion to confuse her, or secretly pull strings for some unspeakable scheme. After all, this was someone who could slice pieces off the Lord of Crimson, turn them into beautiful girls, and toy with them. His mind was filthy and evil to the extreme.
But...
She stared blankly at him before her.
That twisted form had long since vanished, replaced by a young human man. His warped, filthy shape seemed to have completely fallen away because she had absorbed that portion of his essence.
"Mmph-"
But she could no longer speak, and that look of humiliation appeared on her face once again.
With his previous appearance, even though she knew that twisted abomination was violating her, she could not tell which parts were his limbs and which were his torso. But when he took on a human appearance in her eyes, what he was doing to her suddenly became unmistakably clear.
He was taking revenge by using her to vent his desires.
Using her soul!
"Enough!"
She gasped.
"It's... it's already enough!!"
Meanwhile, in Clockwork City.
As the cathedrals throughout Clockwork City lit up one after another, the Spirit Realm incursions caused by the Great Sun's collapse had also diminished considerably.
Beneath the tower in the city center, Ophiel had personally led the Church's elite forces to seal off the area. Dense defensive lines centered on the tower spread across several surrounding streets. Anyone who dared to trespass at a time like this would be ruthlessly stopped.
"Archbishop Ophiel, our apologies! We're late!"