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The World looked around and, seeing that everyone seemed thunderstruck and speechless, spoke in a low voice:
"The Red Angel has his own aims. Taking Feysac is a shared desire of his and my Lord's."
So it isn't a relationship of subordination... But a former King of Angels under the Creator is actually cooperating with Mr. Fool on military matters and warfare! How unexpected. What's more, the Red Angel has another title: the God of War...
As though confirming everyone's imaginings, the Fool at the head of the table leisurely uttered something like a maxim:
"He goes there to set the land aflame with war."
It sounded like a portent, yet also like a future already decided.
Leonard, Alger, and Audrey all vaguely sensed something. Along with that name and title, the air of gunpowder and warfare seemed to begin spreading above the Tarot Club.
Is another war about to begin... Audrey sighed inwardly.
Although the Feysac people had always been the hypothetical enemy in Loen's propaganda strategy, and had previously sent airships to bomb Backlund, nearly killing her, now the God of Combat had fallen, and Mr. Fool was keeping his promise to help the people of the City of Silver and the Forsaken Land of the Gods obtain a safe, abundant new home... From the perspective of mythology, this was the wicked finally receiving their retribution, and a god's promise coming true. Although this had little to do with her, Audrey still sighed softly, unable to restrain her feelings, and felt the sorrow of one creature mourning another's fate.
Ultimately, only those at the top and Beyonders could profit from war. For ordinary people, war offered nothing but catastrophe.
The pain of shattered faith and the cruelty of facing war and death made Audrey's spirits sink despite