But among these "seeds," not a single one had an original badge. Not one!
Could you have seen it wrong?! Original badges... weren't those things only ever used by the Divine Lord?!"
Tree grabbed Sie's shoulders and shook her repeatedly. Her tone was frantic, and she seemed to have lost all ability to think clearly as she sought confirmation from the other girl. "But how could that Ren Yu... be the Divine Lord himself?! The Divine Lord disappeared so, so long ago! He vanished right before our eyes! Right! You saw it too, didn't you?!"
Meanwhile, Sie wore a troubled expression, seemingly unsure how to answer that question.
Was Ren Yu the Divine Lord?
She didn't know either!
Reason told her no! The Divine Lord had died long ago! He had been gone since countless ages past!
Yet he held an original badge and used that person's former combat methods. In particular, that "Heroic Spirit Killer" gave Sie an extremely strange sense of familiarity.
She had almost believed that Ren Yu was that person himself!
But Sie didn't dare confirm it, because he was simply too weak. Back then, he had only been at the level of a Fifth Order lifeform—so weak that she could have crushed him with a single finger!
And how could the Divine Lord, who had created everything, possibly be so weak?
"I... I don't know either. Even if you ask me whether Ren Yu is the Divine Lord, I still don't know the truth." Sie shook her head in distress.
Tree was burning with anxiety, and upon hearing that, she pressed again:
"Between the two of us, you were the one who spent the longest time in contact with him! Didn't you notice anything unusual about him at all? Some special trait, perhaps..."
"Mm, there