Controversy

"Transmigration?" Adam repeated.

Once she had started, the rest came more easily. Besides, she had already told the truth once in front of Audrey under the guise of a prophecy. Neph's shoulders slumped, and much of her wariness fell away. "I-in my understanding, I entered a world depicted in a book."

Neph tried to glean something from the changes in Adam's expression. Unfortunately, all she caught was the same clear gaze that had remained unchanged from the start.

What the hell- As she stubbornly refused to give up, Adam finally spoke. "So, to you, there is no difference between the Earth in the book and the Outer Deities, is there?"

"No-" Neph denied it almost instinctively.

She paused before choosing her words again. "Even when you read a novel, you still have your own emotional preferences, don't you? Like-like how I hate you?"

Adam offered no comment on that. He watched Neph quietly for a while, and when he spoke again, the change of subject was absurdly abrupt. "I don't know exactly what those two concealed honorific names are, but I have some guesses.

"Cheek may have a problem similar to Pure White's."

Neph's eyes widened in astonishment. She stared at Adam's unchanged expression for a few seconds, then gave up on asking about the sudden change of subject. Instead, she said, "By similar, you can't possibly mean that Primordial God Almighty has awakened in Cheek too?"

Primordial God Almighty having awakened in the former White Angel, now the Eternal Blazing Sun, was a conjecture Neph had pieced together from scattered clues. When Adam mentioned that the latter was hiding a secret, that was Neph's first thought, leading her to recall the Great Old One who had so far appeared only in ravings.

But all of that was easy enough