"Maybe we just got lucky, but I think it's more likely that Control did something."
Just then, Yoru Mitaka said this to Asa.
"You're saying Makima did something? What do you mean?"
Asa Mitaka asked in confusion.
"You know what control means, right? She can control any being she considers inferior to herself. That's her ability as the Control Devil."
Yoru Mitaka explained, "After that girl was controlled, she put you together. It looked like a random assignment, but she'd actually manipulated it."
"So that's how it was..."
Asa Mitaka nodded, only half understanding, and remarked, "In that case, Makima's ability really is amazing."
"It's nothing special. My ability is no worse than hers. You could call it your ability now, too."
Yoru Mitaka spoke matter-of-factly.
"No worse than Makima's? What kind of ability is it?"
Hearing that, Asa Mitaka couldn't help growing a little curious.
The War Devil and Makima were both among the Four Horsemen. The Control Devil's ability was control, so what was the War Devil's ability? War?
"Listen carefully. My ability lets me turn anything I own into a weapon. The more important I consider something, the stronger the weapon it becomes."
There was considerable pride in Yoru Mitaka's tone.
But after thinking it over, Asa Mitaka didn't find the ability all that impressive. "Why does that sound... nothing special?"
Turning things she owned into weapons-compared with the ability to control others, she felt it was clearly inferior.
"Huh? You actually think it's nothing special? It's obviously an amazing ability, okay!"
Yoru Mitaka immediately wanted to correct Asa Mitaka's mistaken thinking.
But those words alone still couldn't make Asa Mitaka see what was so impressive about the ability.
After all, the War Devil's ability really did seem fairly ordinary at first glance. But even the Famine