"Kishōin... Kiga?"
Roland paused slightly.
This name offered absolutely no disguise; it practically spelled out her origins and purpose.
Wait... I can't jump to conclusions yet. Getting framed because of someone's alias is a classic plot development too...
"She's a nun of Eastern descent, like me. Or, as they would say in this country, a Buddhist nun."
...All right, it's her.
Ciel's cautious addition made Roland's mouth twitch, leaving him rather speechless.
The world had neither shape nor substance, yet possessed a nobility surpassing everyone, owing to its infinite history and fate.
Even a creature at the pinnacle like the King of the Moon would meet defeat and destruction before the Counter Force's corrections. Even a monster like ort, which drove the protagonists to such despair that they could not fight it, would become a lingering shadow of the past under the pruning of a Lostbelt.
Although beings bearing the name of Beast could already exist independently of time, they still could not escape this constraint.
From that perspective, it was hardly strange for that Humanity's Evil, which likewise upheld the principle of love and desire and bore the name Heaven of Pleasure, to appear as such a variant in this reset world line.
But even so.
Discovering that Kiara Sessyoin had switched allegiances like this still left Roland feeling somewhat peculiar.
Though both were Beast III, this she-devil's notoriety far surpassed Mara's.
In fact, even among Humanity's Evils, where lunatics abounded, she could be called infamous.
An inhuman thing that regarded only herself as human, a truly wicked being.
Alongside her utterly vile personality, she had a record of repeatedly coming back to life after defeat, single-handedly creating several named world lines, and playing even other Humanity's Evils in the palm of her hand.
Of course, notoriety on this