Chu Ge had never dared imagine that evil organizations plotting to rule the world still existed in modern society.
Even Japanese and American comics rarely did that anymore...
But just because fiction no longer did it did not mean reality had stopped. If someone really could control something as badass as the Four Symbols, their ambitions might well swell to that extent. Perhaps Sandru was searching for the Azure Dragon and Black Tortoise simply because he "couldn't allow anyone else to have anything that badass."
Of course, that was all speculation. In any case, Chu Ge could basically conclude that Sandru definitely had another objective. Although he and the Heavenly Emperor were working together, they could not be treated as having the same goal. Their environments and ways of thinking were completely different. How could they possibly be trying to do the same thing? At most, their goals shared enough similarities for them to cooperate.
And his book very likely was not the "root of all evil" he had originally imagined it to be. Sandru's esper ability had existed before it. Even without his book, Sandru would still have had his ambitions. His book had, at most, handed him a knife and a catalyst.
Thinking this way made him feel much better. Otherwise, if he really had caused all this chaos, that would have been an awful feeling, a sense of guilt and invisible pressure. Much of that had now dissipated.
Instead, he felt he could use his special abilities to eliminate an evil organization for the world and his country. That was an entirely different feeling.
The Azure Dragon seemed to have seen what he was thinking and chuckled. "Actually, Father God, have you ever considered that, with your current power, you're the one who could contemplate ruling the