During this battle, the Taurus Saint Cloth had many small cracks, but now was clearly not a good time to help Taurus repair his Saint Cloth.
So, Shin could only suppress his desire for the Gold Saint Cloth and follow the group to the palace behind.
The Gemini Palace was empty; Saga didn't use any tricks this time—facing four Gold Saints, Saga knew that any remote trickery would be useless.
Seeing the Gold Saint Cloth placed in the empty Gemini Palace, Shin truly admired Saga's audacity.
A mischievous smile appeared on his face as a black mist swirled, drawing the Gemini Saint Cloth into the dark dimension.
Saori Kido and Mu, along with the others, looked at Shin in surprise.
Shin directly merged himself with the Gemini Saint Cloth: "How about it, don't I look like a Gemini Saint?"
Mu seemed to have thought of something, his expression twitching, looking like he was struggling to hold it in.
Saori Kido was somewhat puzzled and asked, "Has the Gemini Gold Saint not returned yet?"
"Ah, that guy has been missing for many years," Mu said, nodding vigorously after hearing Saori Kido's question.
As for the other three Gold Saints, although they knew the Pope was not a good person, they truly didn't know that the Pope was currently Saga in disguise.
Therefore, they naturally didn't refute Mu's words, and the other Bronze and Silver Saints were even more clueless.
"Is that so? If the Gemini Gold Saint doesn't return, then Shin, you could also be the Gemini Gold Saint, but then Sagittarius would be short a person again," Saori Kido said with some distress, then didn't pay much attention to Shin's actions, and no one else said anything.
The subsequent Cancer Palace was, needless to say, Deathmask's morbid creation, making everyone very uncomfortable.
Deathmask had created many human faces in the Cancer Palace, all of them looking incredibly pained, some even children's faces.
In the original story, Deathmask said that these were the souls of those who opposed the Pope, killed by him and imprisoned here—however, for more than ten years, the fake Pope had been in the Sanctuary, never moving from his spot.
Where would he get so many opposition members from?
Saga, the ruler of the Sanctuary, had never truly harmed anyone from beginning to end.
His worst deeds, apart from dealing with Athena, were eliminating a few attendants and grunts who saw his true face; he hadn't done anything else bad.
Under the gaze of the many Saints and the Goddess, Deathmask could only scratch his face sheepishly: "These are actually vengeful souls I've brought over from Yomotsu Hirasaka... Don't you think it's quite imposing this way?"
Imposing or not, no one really felt it, but it was quite frightening.
Everyone was noncommittal about Cancer's morbid hobby; after all, it was a personal preference, and Goddess Athena couldn't possibly interfere that much.
In any case, everyone quickened their pace when they left the Cancer Palace.
Subsequently, the group arrived at the Fifth House, Aiolia's Leo Palace.
Aiolia was pacing back and forth in the Leo Palace, looking less like a lion and more like a husky.
Ever since Saori Kido unleashed her Cosmos, Aiolia had been in a state of confusion.
In his previous battle with Mu, Aiolia had naturally learned some truths from Mu's mouth, but at that time, he didn't quite believe it, as there was no evidence.
But after Saori Kido's Cosmos erupted, the already somewhat doubtful Aiolia was completely shaken.
Recalling his brother, Aiolia's heart was filled with both excitement and apprehension.
"Could my brother truly have been righteous? Then all these years... If this is the truth! Pope, I will absolutely not let him off!"
People only believe what they want to believe.
Evidently, because of his brother Aiolos, the scales in Aiolia's heart had long since tipped towards Saori Kido.
Therefore, when Saori Kido revealed her identity in front of the Leo Gold Saint, Aiolia joined Saori Kido's team without a second thought.
He wanted to go to the Pope's Chamber to get to the bottom of it and see who was truly on the side of justice.
After the Leo Palace was the Virgo Palace.
Shaka of the Virgo Palace is considered by most to be the strongest among the current generation of Gold Saints.
His greatest achievement was using Tenbu Horin (Treasures of Heaven) and gaining the upper hand in a battle against Saga, Camus, and Shura, forcing the three to ultimately unleash the Athena Exclamation.
At the same time, he was also the first among this generation of Gold Saints to awaken the Eighth Sense, Araya Shiki.
Even if calling him the absolute strongest among this generation of Gold Saints is debatable, he is definitely one of the strongest.
But even so, when this closed-eyed Gold Saint sensed the arrival of Saori Kido and six Gold Saints (Shin was wearing the Gemini Gold Saint Cloth), he still felt an urge to curse.
Can this Sanctuary even get any better? Six people ganging up on one, right? Don't your consciences hurt?
After the usual round of verbal sparring, Saori Kido stepped forward again.
For Shaka, who possessed the ability to sense minds, he was currently in a very confused state.
Both the Pope and Saori Kido's minds and Cosmos made Shaka feel pure and benevolent, so who was right and who was wrong between the two?
Shaka no longer cared about these matters.
As a Gold Saint, stopping anyone who trespassed into his Virgo Palace and fulfilling his duty should not be wrong, right?
As for not being able to defeat or stop these people, he could only say he tried his best.
There's nothing much to say about the outcome of the battle.
Compared to direct physical attacks, Shaka's almost spiritual attacks were, to put it bluntly, useless against Saori Kido, who possessed Athena's divine soul.
Even his most powerful ultimate move, Tenbu Horin, was essentially a domain combining Cosmos and spiritual power.
Facing Saori Kido's overwhelming Cosmos and soul power, it had no restrictive effect whatsoever.
With a loud crash, even Shaka, who usually kept his eyes closed, unleashed his accumulated Cosmos and opened his eyes wide, yet he still couldn't block Saori Kido's punch.
Slightly better than Taurus, this guy used his psychokinesis to resist some of the attacks, so he wasn't punched from one end of the Virgo Palace to the other.
However, his helmet was completely knocked off, and he himself fell to the ground, then he didn't get up, but simply closed his eyes.
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