Solomon's joy was cut off all of a sudden; hearing that smiling feminine voice from behind him, his whole body shuddered, and his body, faster than his thoughts, dropped heavily to its knees on the ground. He knocked his head against the earth and, facing the still indistinct presence behind him, spoke in a trembling voice,
"Lo... Lord Paimon, I... I have already, according to your commands, over these thousands of years, entered all the other nine Gates besides yours and retrieved the Seals of the First Pillars from within... I truly tried, tried so very hard, and... and this is the last one. Please look it over... please... please look it over..."
"Oh, oh, I know. You must have died over ten thousand times for this. Although the palaces of the other Demon Gods did not set up Prohibitions against entry the way Elliog's did, the mechanisms, traps, and Magic inside them are beyond counting..."
