13 Mink Street
Chapter 352

The world inside the gate

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"We praise you, your eyes saw our final destination and let us understand the true meaning of death;

We extol you, your hands opened our path and let us rest in the world of the dead;

We remember you, your feet led us forward and brought true reincarnation into being between life and death!

Because of you, death is no longer pure terror;

Because of you, living is no longer mere desolation;

We can be at ease, we can remain composed, we can travel this road, again and again, admiring the true scenery.

Supreme Reincarnation,

Great God of Reincarnation,

You are the world's only truth!"

From Reincarnation Clerics to ordinary believers, everyone began singing the Reincarnation Hymn in unison.

Standing among them, you could clearly sense the intense devotion radiating from their bodies. Enveloped in that devotion, even your soul seemed about to suffocate.

This was true fanaticism;

For in the eyes of the Reincarnation believers, it was the God of Reincarnation who had created the alternation between life and death, making their lives and deaths no longer meaningless.

Perhaps this was the foundation of an orthodox church.

There were certainly private interests, bureaucracy, political schemes, and struggles within the church, but there was no denying that it possessed an enormous base of fervently devoted believers.

Yet such an orthodox church had been defeated on the very first day of its war with Order.

As Kallen understood it, although the Order God Church possessed the same loyalty to the God of Order that other churches had toward their gods, its people seemed a little more restrained by comparison.

But restrained or not, when it came to an actual fight, no matter how fanatical you were, one slap was all it took.

According to information declassified and circulated after the war,

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