Father and son (second update)

"This is corruption," Neph answered without hesitation.

"Why?" Derrick seemed unable to understand. He raised his head and stared straight at Neph. "Miss Pure White, you told me earlier that the Lord has become an evil spirit, but you seem able to communicate with him. Does the Lord still retain some of his consciousness? If so, why-why doesn't he look after us?"

He clenched his fists. After several seconds of silence, Neph sighed and said:

"Those traitors divided up the Lord's authorities and used them to ascend to the positions of true gods. The Lord reacted at the last moment and did retain a small amount of his authority. For example-"

She paused and looked at Derrick, her tone grave. "Depravity."

Derrick froze for a moment, but Neph had already continued:

"I have ways to protect myself and can communicate with the Lord to a certain extent. But other people-heh, perhaps you need Mr. Hanged Man and Mr. World to describe the fine things the Aurora Order has done.

"Mr. Sun, I hope you understand that if the Lord truly had a clear consciousness and could communicate normally, you probably wouldn't see me at the Tarot Club at all-I would only ever be at his side."

Still, in that case, I probably wouldn't get a turn-in that case, your Mr. Fool would probably be an Oracle or a Blessed too. Haha...

"-I understand." Derrick sat down, though he still looked somewhat unconvinced.

"Besides," Neph added, "Mr. Sun, do you know what would have happened if the Lord really had looked after you over the past three thousand years?"

Derrick hesitantly shook his head, and Neph gave a cold laugh.

"Previously, Amon didn't know the Lord's true situation. He believed the Lord was someone else who had inherited the memories of