These words were spoken in a very interesting way, as if they were said to Cereza, yet also as if they were said to Lumen Sage Balder.
Sure enough, after hearing these words, the Lumen Sage in the high-backed chair spoke, "My child, so you have already remembered so much? Please forgive Daddy for not always being by your side, but Daddy also has his difficulties."
"Heh-heh, is that so? Then tell me, luring me over here, what exactly is it you want to do?" Bayonetta sneered.
As a witch, she could feel the malice radiating from Balder's body. At this moment, she absolutely would not acknowledge this man as her father.
"And… the destruction of the witch clan, is it related to you?" Bayonetta continued speaking.
"I thought our reunion would be so thrilling, but I didn't expect you to be more eager to know about these things…"
Facing Bayonetta's question, Balder turned the high-backed chair around. He glanced at the group, his gaze especially lingering on Aiden for a long while, then slowly stood up.
"I can tell you everything you want to know, I can also tell you why your mother died, and even more, I can tell you what my goal is."
"However, my child, before that, can I still hear you call me father once more? I mean… you as you are grown up." Balder walked forward a few steps.
The feather decorations on his gorgeous clothes stirred without wind, the golden mask covered half his face, but beneath the mask, his eyes glimmered with an inexplicable light.
He seemed to recall something, a beautiful memory.
Bayonetta also walked forward a few steps. One hand on her hip, one hand holding a pistol, she spoke in a somewhat disappointed tone, "I think you had better turn back around, because I am very disappointed."
"I thought you would be so handsome, but I didn't expect… looks like my mother's genes really were passed down well to me."
At this, Bayonetta turned her head to glance at Aiden, "I hope our daughter can inherit each of our strong points."
"That is inevitable." Aiden smiled with narrowed eyes and nodded. While speaking aloud, inwardly he was communicating with those two existences.
'Can you eliminate the evil-thought entity inside Balder's body?'
["Of course, just kill him and it's done."]
["For once, I agree with the b*tch's words."]
["Shut up, you wh*re, this has nothing to do with you. He is using my power."]
'Very good, I give this answer full marks. But my meaning was under the premise of not killing him… and also, can you not argue?' Aiden rubbed his brow in some helplessness.
Bayonetta's father was actually a good man. In order to save the world, he had sealed the evil-thought entity of the Chaos God within himself.
However, although the Lumen Sage was one of the observers chosen by the main god, and possessed the powerful artifact the Right Eye of Light.
It was obvious that the Chaos God's evil-thought entity was still too powerful, forcibly brainwashing a good man into a great villain.
Moreover, Bayonetta very much wished to enjoy a father's love. In fact, although she grew up among the witch clan, she had barely experienced motherly love, and had been amnesiac for so long, whichever way you looked at it, it was a bit pitiful.
Therefore, he wanted to try whether he could awaken the true Lumen Sage Balder, removing the evil-thought entity inside him named Lopardo.
While thinking this, the existence from the Demon-Summoner Contract spoke again.
"The evil-thought entity has already fused with him as one. To kill the evil-thought entity, you must kill him. Moreover, he still has divinity, I mean true divinity."
"Of course, if you can think of a way to let my avatar descend into this world, perhaps we can try, after killing him, to revive him again."
"Uh… then how can I make your avatar descend, transform?" Aiden glanced at Balder, who had already begun telling Bayonetta all the causes of this, and spoke inwardly with some reluctance.
'A Demon-Summoner transformation seemed to be directly transforming into a female demon, right? And it seemed to be a succubus with a tail growing out from the butt?'
Just imagining this scene made him shudder.
["In fact, you cannot yet cause my avatar to descend into this world. And besides, even if I came to this world, the first thing I would do is wage war with this world's main god, unless you can make them agree to me altering part of this world's rules, otherwise the war of gods would sweep the entire universe."]
'Sounds lofty and grand, but seems pretty useless!' Aiden felt that apart from showing off how powerful she was, it seemed she couldn't do anything.
'Can you actually do it or not?' he added.
But in response, there was a long silence.
["Hahaha… b*tch, your mouth is your only strength."] The other existence began gloating.
'So you want to try?' Aiden turned and asked it.
And so, this one too fell silent.
'Seems like just being strong is useless, can't help me at all.' Aiden curled his lip. After so many interactions and conversations, he no longer felt the awe he had at first toward these two.
But soon, the cool voice sounded, ["I have another method."]
'Speak!' Aiden spat out the two words simply.
["Just kill him…"]
'That counts as a method? Isn't that the same as at the start?' Aiden ridiculed.
["Let me finish."]
The cool voice was displeased, then continued, ["After killing him, preserve him with magic… This step can be skipped, divinity will make his body immortal."]
["My meaning is, after killing him, store away his corpse, and in the future when you can meet me, I will revive him."]
'That's a pretty good method… but if I can only meet you hundreds of years later, could you still revive him then?'
["To revive a person is one of my most basic abilities, no matter how long he has been dead."]
'Sounds strong… then can you revive someone without a corpse?' Aiden thought of Bayonetta's mother.
["Unless one dies within a world under my control, otherwise no. The rules do not allow it… unless you let me come and change this world's rules."]
'You just want to take over this world, don't you?' Aiden said irritably, but in his heart began to think of something, if in the future he could return to five hundred years ago, could he also preserve Bayonetta's mother's corpse and let them revive her?
Now he no longer felt that reviving them would cause this world to collapse.
A god's power was unfathomable, just like what Balder was now telling Bayonetta about the power of the Left and Right Eyes of Light and Darkness, supervising time and history, and even… altering history was not impossible.
Changing the history of the witch clan and sage clan's destruction so that they still existed within history…
But this looked somewhat difficult. If it were that easy, then in the second-generation story the sage should already have done so.
Of course, there was also the possibility that the sage was unwilling to change history.
Aiden thought thus in his heart, when the cool voice sounded again in his ear, ["Your idea is not impossible, but that goddess as bright as the sun probably would not agree. To powerful gods, the development of history can only follow its course naturally, they will not interfere too much."]
'But I am not a god.' Aiden curled his lip. He truly wanted to try.
["If you want to try, then try. But my method is the simplest."]
The cool voice said, ["Yet I still want to say, find a way to let me come over, I can help you control this world, solve all your troubles."]
But Aiden shook his head, 'I'll think about it some more.'
While Aiden was speaking with them, at the same time, Balder had already finished telling Bayonetta all of the causes.
And having heard it all, Bayonetta restrained her anger and said, "So, for the sake of a legend, you incited humans to launch witch hunts? You killed the witch clan, and also killed my mother."
"Rosa was a good girl, I also liked her, but all sacrifices were worth it, because that was no legend. As long as you can activate the Left Eye's power, we can revive the creator god Jubileus and create a brand-new trinity world…" Balder spread his arms, speaking with a fanatic expression.
Then, he looked toward Bayonetta, "At that time, we will become the Eyes of the World, eternally watching over this new world."
"So, my daughter, Cereza, return to your father's embrace, and together with me…"
"I will absolutely not call the culprit who created this nightmare my father, nor do I want to become the so-called Eyes of the World, and even less do I want to embrace you." Bayonetta cut Balder off.
"You make me feel sick."
"Cereza, I am very disappointed. You should not speak to your father like this." Balder shook his head, but there was not a trace of sorrow on his face.
"But it no longer matters, because you have already come here according to my plan. Although there was a tiny deviation, it's fine."
Balder spoke as he walked a few steps forward, sweeping his gaze over the five people, and continued, "No one… can stop me."
"That's not certain, Balder. Three against one, you have no chance of victory."
The long-silent Jeanne spoke. She naturally ignored the ordinary human Luka and the Cereza who could not yet use magic.
This, of course, provoked Luka's dissatisfaction, and he shouted, "I think I can still contribute some strength!"
His words drew everyone's attention to him, but they all looked at him like an idiot.
Balder even looked at him and said, "Your name is Luka, right? I remember you seem to be a very famous big-name journalist."
The praise instantly made Luka toss his hair proudly, "Looks like I do have some fame, even the big boss of Ithavoll, the last Lumen Sage in the world, knows me."
"Yes, because I knew your father."
Balder leaned elegantly against a lectern for speeches, and said mildly, "Compared to your father, your professional ability is still a bit lacking, because relying only on himself plus legends, he actually collected so much real information about the sages and witches, he was truly remarkable."
"My father is naturally the best." Luka greatly admired his father. Then he glanced at Bayonetta, "Too bad he was killed by her."
"No no no, Luka, I must correct you and clear my daughter's name." Balder raised a finger and wagged it.
"Your father was very capable, but unfortunately he did not agree with my ideals. Although he helped me find my daughter Cereza, for certain reasons I had to silence him… so, the one who actually killed your father was me."
"You bastard." Hearing this, Luka instantly became furious, even clenching his fists, wanting to fight Balder to the death. But as soon as he moved, an invisible force pulled him back.
It was Bayonetta's doing. But after saving him, Bayonetta only said, "I already told you your father wasn't killed by me, so please don't pester me about it in the future. I don't want my man to misunderstand."
Then, she no longer paid attention to Luka, raising her twin pistols and aiming at Balder.
At the same time, Jeanne also raised her twin pistols and stood side by side with her.
"I am actually curious, how did you get rid of my control? Could it be because of him?" Facing the gun barrels, Balder showed no reaction. He looked at Jeanne, and after speaking, turned his gaze toward Aiden.
"You guessed right." Aiden nodded.
When meeting Jeanne in Vigrid, he had already asked those two existences, and learned that upon leaving Country D, the binding magic on Jeanne had already been lifted.
"Impressive, I didn't know all along. If I hadn't seen Jeanne enter together with Cereza, I would still think she was obeying me." A trace of surprise finally appeared on Balder's face.
"But it doesn't matter, even if Jeanne stands on your side, you still cannot be my match."
["Are the god's spokesmen here all this confident? Even my subordinate gods don't dare say that."] A light-hearted voice rang in Aiden's mind, with partial consciousness shared, they could hear what Aiden heard.
Aiden then drew out a huge scythe, and hearing her voice, responded quietly, 'Perhaps he's certain he can revive that main god called Jubileus.'
["That woman as bright as the sun? I don't think she's much."] The light-hearted voice carried a hint of disdain.
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