What on earth is happening?
The entire dining hall had been swallowed by a tide of darkness, transformed into a pitch-black sea.
Gabriella’s gaze lifted. She saw that Isabella’s golden hair had turned into a bewitching rose-gold.
The vertical pupils of a devil stretched sideways in her irises, forming a sinister cross-shaped star.
Her delicate body shuddered.
The way Isabella looked right now was exactly the same as the Evil God from eight years ago!
Her consciousness was growing increasingly hazy.
Several strands of chaotic silk, thin as spider threads, wrapped around the top of Gabriella’s head, slowly forming a jet-black halo, like a crown meant to control her.
But Gabriella could no longer summon the overwhelming power she once had to rival it.
If this were a battle against a final boss, she wasn’t even on the hero’s roster anymore.
Rather than resistance, what she had offered earlier was nothing more than willingly throwing herself into the villain’s arms, handing victory to evil on a silver platter.
“Nn~♡”
The heat radiating from Isabella’s body was just as intoxicating as ever.
When pulled closer, it was like a kin touching their sovereign: excitement and pleasure surged through her, making separation impossible.
Gabriella tried to resist, yet her mind felt strange.
Something was eroding her.
“What a pleasant surprise to see you again,” the Evil God’s indulgent voice cooed beside her ear.
The power of dark chaos coiled into a halo, a crown of shackles.
Obedient thoughts were being poured into her mind without pause.
They filled her brain like instinct, like common sense.
If her original rationality was “white,” then what was invading her now was pure “black.”
Gabriella struggled against the darkness trying to devour her mind.
If it were merely a clash of raw power, she could have fought back!
Yet when that darkness invaded her psyche, she was as helpless as a fledgling before a hawk.
A loud buzzing filled her head.
Thinking became impossible; it felt as though her very soul had been bound by immovable vines.
Calm down, Gabriella… calm down…
When facing the Evil God, the next step is… what again?
Resist?
Did I… go too far? Did Lady Isabella… discover me…?
I was… having my horns stroked…
And then…
I was… following the plan.
What was the plan again?
That’s right… ah♡ What was I supposed to do next?
Who… am I?
“…”
I am Gabriella.
I am Lord Evil God’s 【slave】.
Gabriella could no longer think.
Even the act of “thinking” itself had become superfluous.
All she knew now was that the demon before her, the one who granted her power, was her 【Master】.
She existed only to obey every command, to pave the way for Master’s next move, to submit completely to her will, to please her, and to be ready to sacrifice herself at any moment.
Isabella was Master. Isabella was everything.
Resistance was meaningless.
Gabriella’s vacant eyes widened.
The restlessness in the body pressed against her finally stilled.
She placed her hands on Isabella’s shoulders and spoke in a voice utterly devoid of emotion:
“Master.”
“We meet again~ You lost far more thoroughly than I expected,” the Evil God said, gazing at Gabriella’s serene face.
Gabriella did not feel humiliated in the slightest, because everything the Evil God said was 【correct】.
She should have been the Evil God’s servant all along.
Even becoming a mere plaything should fill her with joy.
“Yes, Master.”
“Then become mine completely. Become my apostle and bear witness with me to the end of this world.”
The Evil God uttered the most vicious curse upon the world in the most casual tone.
Yet it was all correct, Gabriella’s mind acknowledged.
“I will eliminate everyone for you,” she replied.
The dark halo had already formed halfway, now a crescent moon shape. Soon it would be complete.
Several strands of pitch-black shadow emerged from the arm the Evil God (once Isabella) had wrapped around her waist, slithering across Gabriella’s body.
That shadowy power filled Gabriella with indescribable pleasure and bliss.
Had she tried to resist Master earlier?
She couldn’t understand why anyone would do such a thing.
She who was once the Silver-White Sword Empress should now offer all the power she had gained from humanity to her Master.
In just a few more minutes, she would fall completely into the Evil God’s embrace.
She gazed at Master’s face, reached out, looped her arms around Master’s neck, and yearningly sought even more affection.
…
Outside the door, Tina could no longer bear it.
Something had been wrong with Lady Gabriella ever since breakfast.
At first it was still somewhat normal, but then, suddenly, as if possessed by the Demon King, she climbed onto her lap of her own accord.
The noble Silver-White Sword Empress was actually acting spoiled in front of the Demon King!
Tina could not accept it.
The Demon King had turned Lady Gabriella into a doting wife, a slave who craved affection every single day.
She let the Demon King stroke her horns, her face flushed crimson, even actively begging the Demon King to ravish her further.
Scene after scene shattered Tina’s heart.
Yet now the scene before her had turned utterly bizarre.
Isabella suddenly revealed her true nature, as if she had become an entirely different person.
She kissed the Gabriella held in her arms, then began to completely dominate her mind, crowning her with a dark halo that symbolized absolute control!
It resembled the halo of a fallen angel, yet far more sinister and depraved than anything in legend.
Tina suddenly recalled the prophecy of the Goddess…
Lady Silver-White Sword Empress, her mentor, the Goddess herself.
She would never hand her over to this abominable Evil God!
“Demon King!”
Tina burst through the door.
Ice crystals wrapped around her cuffs and shoulders.
Behind her, a pair of beautiful ice-blue wings materialized.
A silver triangular sigil appeared on her forehead, entwined with flickering runes, pulsing with mysterious, ancient power that shimmered beneath her ice-blue hair.
“I am one of the 【Four Saints】, the Ice Saint. Release the Silver-White Sword Empress at once. If you dare harm her, I will strike you down with everything I have and reduce this city to rubble.”
The Evil God cast a contemptuous glance at the intruder, looking at Tina as though she were an insect.
Tina was indeed confident.
The protective barrier around the Demon King’s castle already had a breach blasted open by Lady Silver-White Sword Empress.
Now she was certain she could channel that tremendous power and obliterate the entire castle.
That power was called 【Adjudicator】.
It was the very weapon Lady Silver-White Sword Empress had once wielded.
After the Church divided it, Tina had been granted the right to use one of its fragments.
The drawback was that it required an immense charging period for a brief burst of cataclysmic force.
During the earlier battle alongside Lady Gabriella, everything had happened too suddenly for her to activate it.
Now she had enough time.
She could unleash this cumbersome yet apocalyptic trump card.
It was a little early, but she could not delay any longer.
Yet just as she was about to issue another threat to Isabella, an enemy she had never expected appeared.
The Silver-White Sword Empress, Gabriella, stepped down from the Evil God Isabella’s embrace.
Black, eerie flames burned in her blue eyes.
Those flames gathered into the exact same black cross-star symbol that now adorned the Evil God’s pupils.
With light, graceful steps, she spoke in a playful yet spine-chilling voice:
“Those who resist their Master can only die in agony~”