"Roland?"
Laura was both shocked and furious, the look of certain victory having vanished completely from her face.
Even her cunning blue pupils had contracted to pinpoints in panic.
Although Laura, with her physical body, normally seemed extremely emotional, demons did not actually possess emotions like humans in the purest sense.
But perhaps, as Aleister had said, she had maintained her human disguise for too long.
At this moment, the girl could feel those redundant emotions born of her sadism and conceit utterly occupying her mind.
Laura reacted this way because her own logic conflicted with everything before her.
She was like an artificial intelligence in a film or television show, thrown into confusion by contradictory fundamental directives that forbade harming humans yet required saving them.
Yes, although her essence originating from the Tree of Life made Coronzon far more real than a program formed from phase energy like Gabriel, her nature was still only akin to an artificial intelligence that had acquired free will.
Coronzon was the great demon of the number 333, and her mission was to make everything undergo natural decomposition and return to the cycle.
But the purpose of such behavior was not destruction for destruction's sake; it was the universe's attempt to save itself.
Just as the emergence of Humanity's Evil was meant to let humanity break through a tragic future and reveal new possibilities.
And now, this nothingness, which required breaking through even the timeline, should have been the scene beneath that pitch-black labyrinth that even Demon Gods could not penetrate-the barrier on the outside of the world.
Yet beneath this bedrock, in a dream where only information remained and neither energy nor matter existed, there appeared things such as a Golden Throne, a vast Palace, and a firmament reflecting the universe.
There was