On that straight road, Heinz stood where he was, watching Ye Qiyan draw ever closer.
The malice pouring from the Ring of Evil made him instinctively want to take a step back.
But the conviction in his heart kept Heinz firmly planted, and at that moment, he walked straight toward Ye Qiyan, toward the path ahead he envisioned.
He refused to accept that his path had been denied, or that he would fail.
That conviction was by no means false.
"Is it so hard to understand?"
The moonlight in Ye Qiyan's hand grew ever brighter.
The Ring of Evil spun faster and faster.
"Even true gods keep moving forward. Even the supreme apex does not wish to see the road ahead end. Mayor Heinz, there is nothing wrong with choosing to move forward, but you insisted on giving that road an endpoint.
"So..."
At some point, the chilling moonlight had come to hang bright in the sky.
Throughout Uto City, living beings raised their heads and gazed up at the moon above.
The black-haired young man's eyes were filled with coldness.
"You cannot win."
The moon fell.
[Selfless State × Iai Technique]
[Full Moon]
Heinz stood frozen. He sensed the moon. He clearly had the ability to dodge, and even as a doppelganger, he should have kept himself alive, but...
Suddenly, he no longer wanted to dodge.
He wanted to bring this memory to his true body in the world within the pit.
"...So... that is how it is..."
Heinz's doppelganger gradually faded.
"Your desire... is far greater... than I imagined..."
He looked regretfully at the boys and girls around him, nearly all of them dead or wounded.
"Mr. Altos, although we are enemies, I will still thank you for your answer. But..."
"I need the War Card, and I