Risei Kotomine did not hear those complaints.
Watching Caren read with her head lowered, he nodded in satisfaction.
"A shame it's only an apocrypha. When she grows up, I'll teach her God's teachings."
He glanced at the clock on the wall. "It's about time."
He turned to the translucent shadows. "You're Kirei's Servants, aren't you? I'll leave Caren with you. The television station needs me for something."
With that, he turned and left, his footsteps gradually fading away.
Only Caren and the half-dead Hassans remained in the library.
Caren continued reading with her head lowered, skipping ahead to page 666... There was no page 777; it stopped at 776.
Her gaze flickered slightly.
On page 666 of the Miquella Document-a line completely at odds with the surrounding context:
"We agreed that He would descend; fire and serpents hated man. He taught him to offer up his firstborn, and he did so. Thus the Lord taught him a lesson, and the tower reaching heaven could not be completed..."
At the end of page 776 of the Miquella Document-
"The angel burned away sin; the land of milk and honey was nowhere to be found. A kingdom full of ashes, one king's transgression to be borne by three kings. One bestowed treasures, one built a mighty army, one raised a divine sword high... To break the angel's wings, only wrath and..."
The rest was on the next page, but this was the book's final page.
"...What a mess."
Meanwhile, at a guesthouse somewhere in Fuyuki City.
Waver Velvet sat on a battered sofa, clutching his head in both hands, looking utterly done with life.
"Why... Why do I have to go through all this..."
Iskandar sat beside him, his enormous frame taking up nearly half the sofa. Remote in hand, he enthusiastically