"Impossible, this is the will of Humanity's Evil... there's no way you could be completely unaffected!"
Angra Mainyu let out a despairing wail, unable to understand what was happening before him.
After that body was born, Angra Mainyu had understood the nobility of its essence, but he knew these were two separate matters.
An essence and the consciousness governing it could not simply be regarded as a single entity. At the very least, the man named Roland had not yet completed that unification.
The personality named Angra Mainyu was a consciousness born through the Rat Talisman's power spreading through the proliferating flesh of All the World's Evil. He could be considered All the World's Evil, but All the World's Evil could not be equated with him.
If Roland had not absorbed the Black Holy Grail, even when the flesh outside perished, the black mud within would still give birth to a new master.
This was also why the Eight Immortals had imprisoned Shendu in hell. They did not want to see a new candidate appear, so they had simply used the Hell Dimension's power to wear away the consciousness and power that carried that essence.
The same applied to Humanity's Evil. Angra Mainyu did not expect it to completely destroy Roland's consciousness, but once this authority called a Beast merged into Roland himself, the consciousness governing the body could not possibly remain wholly unaffected.
"Of course that's impossible. If my Contract Spirit were merely the Fire Demon, perhaps you would have succeeded. But from the very beginning, even setting that identity aside, I was someone chosen and favored by the world—the Blessed One."
Roland gave a fearless smile, feeling the Power of Fate boiling within him. He could not describe that profound, mysterious sensation either, but one thing was certain: