Chapter 371 334 – Pleading and the Truth

"Aaaaaah!!!"

Feeling incomparable despair and rage, Kokabiel struggled desperately.

His arms were on the verge of collapse, pale bones piercing through flesh as he forced himself to sit up.

Tap, tap, tap!

Takumi merely walked over unhurriedly, then lightly swept his index finger downward again.

On top of the original ten-thousandfold pressure, Takumi added another thousandfold.

It was like the last bowling ball falling onto a camel's back. With a splat, Kokabiel's body was pressed firmly into the dirt.

Kokabiel, who had been forcibly flattened into two dimensions, relied on his stubborn vitality to cling to a single breath.

Seeing how tenacious he was, Takumi casually withdrew the gravitational field.

"Your vitality is pretty impressive. That's enough for me to think a little more highly of you."

Takumi walked up to the lump of two-dimensional mosaic and spoke cheerfully.

Everyone following behind him, including Xenovia, fell completely silent, not daring to make too much noise.

Takumi's pressure right now was simply too terrifying. Even Hiratsuka felt her heart pounding as she watched.

With just one raised finger, he had half-killed the fallen angel who had looked impossibly strong a moment ago. If that had been used on her, she probably would not have lasted half a second before turning into Hiratsuka paste.

Hiratsuka clicked her tongue, feeling that she needed to be more careful around Takumi from now on.

Inside that little brat's body was a power that truly exceeded her understanding.

As Takumi released the pressure, Kokabiel, who had almost become a meat pancake, barely recovered.

Unable to move, he looked at Takumi in lingering terror and said in disbelief, "A transcendent… You're a powerhouse who has surpassed the limits of your race!"

"You're no damn Demon King. You're far stronger than them!!"

"I didn't lose unjustly!!"

Having understood Takumi's strength, Kokabiel shouted madly, but his tone now carried respect.

An absolute powerhouse was worthy of respect from a weakling like him, no matter where they were.

Looking up at Takumi, Kokabiel's eyes revealed humility and fanaticism.

"I can cooperate with you… No, I can become your subordinate!"

"You may not understand just how strong you are. Your power is enough to dominate this world, do you know that?!"

Kokabiel kept speaking, and it was clear that his desire to survive was very strong.

"Mm-hmm? What are you trying to say?"

Takumi looked at him with interest and narrowed his eyes slightly, signaling for Kokabiel to continue.

Kokabiel immediately gave a bitter smile and swept his gaze over everyone around them.

"The people at the top never intended to let those below know the truth."

"Just like those fools. The master they must serve died long ago, yet they still came running over to oppose me."

Kokabiel pointed at Irina and Xenovia, his face filled with mockery.

Listening to him, the two frowned in confusion.

"What nonsense are you talking about? We don't have any master we must serve. If there is one, then it would only be the Lo—"

Irina's words suddenly stopped at the end.

Xenovia's pupils shrank, and she looked at Kokabiel in shock.

Kokabiel laughed from the bottom of his heart, as if mocking their ignorance.

"Hahahahaha!!!"

"This is the truth I'm talking about!!"

"In that ancient Great War, aside from the Four Great Satans, even God died."

As Kokabiel's booming voice rang out, everyone other than Takumi showed expressions of disbelief.

Rias, Irina, and the others were shocked, while Yuki Tsukumo and Hiratsuka-sensei were equally shaken.

"Wait, so God actually existed? Does that mean evolution is wrong?!"

Hiratsuka-sensei's utterly out-of-place comment nearly made the others lose composure.

Kokabiel also looked at her with contempt.

She was actually still a materialist human. Clearly, she had only just come into contact with the supernatural. What an idiot.

But considering that she was Takumi's retainer, he did not dare mock her out loud.

Under everyone's shocked gazes, Kokabiel looked at Takumi fanatically.

"That's right. God is already dead!"

"Humans are incomplete creatures. Without God, even their psychological balance and the laws they set for themselves will fail, you know?"

"Even we fallen angels and Demons don't dare let those beneath us know."

"But this is an opportunity!!"

"With your strength, plus my assistance, we can throw this world into chaos and dominate it!"

"After that, you will become the new God and redefine the order of this world. Doesn't that stir your heart?!"

Kokabiel spoke with extreme excitement, staggering as he even stood up from the ground.

His emotions were incomparably high. This was the true reason he had always wanted to start a war.

God no longer existed. The throne in Heaven was empty.

Someone had to govern everything, so why couldn't it be him?!

In contrast to Kokabiel, Irina and Xenovia were both dejected and in an extremely wretched state, looking so miserable that others could hardly bear to watch.

"Impossible… That's impossible…"

"How could there be no God… How could God die?"

"Is that true? It can't be, right?"

"Th-Then when we suffered in that research facility, what exactly were we believing in?"

Irina and Xenovia had completely lost their fighting spirit. Gritting their teeth, they stood there and questioned Kokabiel.

"If the Lord is gone, if the Lord is dead… then what was the love He gave us? What were the blessings He granted us?!"

The two seemed to be using this as their core argument, trying to prove that Kokabiel was lying.

Seeing that the two of them still refused to give up, Kokabiel mercilessly tore away the final layer of concealment.

"That part is thanks to Michael. He replaced God in unifying the angels and humans."

"As long as the [System] God used before can still operate normally, prayers offered to God, blessings, exorcists, and so on can all still function to a certain extent."

"But the God and Satans who governed the balance between holy and demonic power no longer exist."

"Because of that, anomalies will always appear."

When Kokabiel mentioned the word anomalies, the name Asia immediately appeared in Xenovia's and Irina's minds.

Asia, who had once been a saint, possessed the Sacred Gear Twilight Healing, which could heal others.

That sacred power should not have been capable of healing Demons.

But because the boundary between holy and demonic power had become chaotic, her power could heal Demons as well.

And as warriors of the Church, Xenovia and the others had personally experienced some unbelievable things.

Yokai, cursed spirits, and stray Demons were supposed to be three separate kinds of existence, yet they could fuse with one another.

The Church had labeled all of them as evil beings and used that to muddle through the matter.

But faintly, Xenovia had also sensed that there was something wrong there.

Now, Kokabiel's words had just proven the suspicions she once had in her heart.

After listening to Kokabiel, Xenovia and Irina collapsed to the ground on the spot.

The shattering of their faith had dealt them too great a blow.

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