Milim was furious.
She decided that she must, definitely, eliminate Velda, the root of all evils.
Milim burst the door open and proceeded to the throne room where Velda was sitting.
Transparent capsules filled with clear liquid were arranged systematically in the walls.
Floating inside each capsule were unborn angels.
The soul energy was being poured into these empty vessels.
Because they didn’t possess a physical body, they were beings that could only exist in the Heaven.
If they established a certain degree of ego, they could act on the surface world for a short time, but…… It required a bit more time for that to happen.
Milim paid no heed to the angels and aimed straight to the throne.
The heart of this Heaven.
It was the place where the God[1] sat at the center of everything.
Velda was now the ruler of this castle, in both name and reality.
The automatic defense system of the Sky Castle[2] reacted to Milim’s murderous intent and judged her as an enemy.
The alarm reverberated and Guardian Dolls[3] appeared.
However, they saw Milim’s necklace and stopped moving.
「YoU CaNnOt PrOcEeD bEyOnD tHiS pOiNt. PleAsE tUrN bAcK.」[4]
The dolls warned Milim.
However, Milim completely ignored them.
「Get out of the way.」
As she said so, Milim casually swung her fist and destroyed one of the dolls.
The dolls couldn’t attack Milim due to the necklace that showed that she was Velda’s family.
Nobody could stop Milim.
That was until a woman stood up before Milim.
「Milim-sama, you have grown to be such fine la……」
The woman tried to approach Milim while being moved to tears.
She was a beautiful and gentle woman wearing a solid black dress.
「Is that you, Salome…… it’s been a long time……」
Joy brightened up Milim’s expression for a moment, and then――
「No. You are not Salome……」
Her expression was clouded over by sadness instantly.
The woman who tried to embrace Milim was split into two.
What dripped out from her wound wasn’t blood but a transparent liquid of unknown ingredients――it was something that came out of a tattered body of a complex machinery rather than that of a living being.
「……Ahh…… Mi, lim…...sama…… you, have…… grown……beep――――」
She extended her hand to touch Milim’s cheek and wiped the teardrop on it.
Just like that, the doll modeled after Salome fell to the ground.
She was the woman who had raised and educated Milim when she still very young.
The woman who cared for Milim in the olden days had passed away.
There’s no way she’s alive.
