The elevator reached the top floor. Before Luke and Krul even stepped off, they saw the Progenitor in the room through the glass!
Before the Progenitor floated many futuristic-looking light screens, and the Progenitor's fingers were dancing across them one by one.
Luke and Krul curiously walked over to the Progenitor's side. Unfortunately, Luke couldn't recognize the text on the screens at all—it wasn't English or Japanese.
Helpless, he pinned his hopes on Krul.
"Krul, do you recognize this script?"
Krul frowned and shook her head.
"I've never seen it before; it's my first time too. But the fact that the Progenitor is on the highest floor of this tower in the Angel Nation means his status among the angels must not be low either."
As she spoke, a doubt arose in Krul's mind.
"But in all the long years I've been by the Progenitor's side, I haven't seen any other angels. What happened to them?"
"Since dinosaurs still exist in this era, maybe these angels were wiped out by a natural disaster, just like the dinosaurs?"
Luke said offhandedly.
Then, after observing the Progenitor for a while longer, Krul suddenly walked over to the wall and started inspecting something.
Luke first looked at Krul in confusion, then his expression turned to one of understanding.
He figured she must have realized there was no useful information on the light screens and wanted to see if there were any other clues in the room.
Right now, Krul just wanted to know what the Progenitor had done to her brother and why he had turned him into a demon.
If asuramaru hadn't lost so many memories after becoming a demon, Krul wouldn't have to go through all this trouble.
However, the top-floor room wasn't as large as the lower floors; it was practically a single glance to see everything. Aside from the Progenitor, there was nothing.
Soon, Krul returned, somewhat dejected.
"Let's go. There are no clues on this floor. I thought this room might have some mechanism like the rooms in the Ichinose Family."
No wonder she even knocked on the wall a couple of times.
Luke understood Krul's actions.
Just as the two were about to leave, two figures suddenly appeared in the room.
"Whoa, we're here in a flash!"
"Huh? Luke, Lady Krul, you're already here!"
The newcomers were Yuichiro and Mika.
Luke looked at the two with some surprise, then asked.
"How did you two suddenly appear here?"
Yuichiro, having yet another novel experience, answered excitedly.
"We took the elevator! Pressed the floor button and whoosh, we appeared here!"
Luke pointed in surprise at the elevator platform they had taken.
"Isn't the elevator this one?"
Mika wore a thoughtful expression.
"Hmm... I remember just now, an angel seemed to be putting things on this one, but I didn't go up myself."
Luke looked speechless.
So, after all that, the one they had just taken was a freight elevator! And they had praised it for being fast, only to miss the even faster one, wasting over ten minutes. Even though there was no real loss, Luke still felt it was such a darn waste!
Krul didn't mind these details either.
"Let's go. There's nothing here except the Progenitor and screens full of incomprehensible text."
"Huh? Really?"
Hearing this, Mika also felt a little disappointed. Was there really no useful information here either?
But he couldn't just leave after hearing one sentence from Krul. Still unwilling to give up, Mika walked over to the Progenitor's side and looked at the light screens.
Krul was about to leave when she suddenly thought: if Mika really was the Progenitor's child, he might recognize that script. So she wasn't in a hurry to leave anymore and followed to stand behind Mika.
Yuichiro also ran over.
"Mmm... Sigh~ I really can't understand it either..."
Krul also shook her head in disappointment.
"The deterioration of... Solar Power..."
Huh?!
The gazes of the other three fell on Yuichiro, who had spoken. Yuichiro was now staring intently at the text on those light screens.
"...Regarding the Progenitor's acts of creation and revival, both are strictly forbidden major crimes... That's roughly what it says. Ah!"
Yuichiro had just looked away when he turned his head and saw Mika's face right up close, startling him.
"You scared me! What are you doing, Mika!"
Mika wore an 'I knew it' expression, saying excitedly.
"This really is your memory, Yu!"
Hearing Mika say this, Yuichiro scratched his head.
"Is that so?"
"Just what kind of being are you, Yu?!"
Krul, meanwhile, sank into thought. The screens mentioned a 'Progenitor.' Would it be one like her, like Urd and Rig? If so, since they had already been created by the Progenitor, did that mean the Progenitor had violated angelic law?
Luke clutched his stomach, looking pitiful.
"Let's not worry about that for now. I feel like the most crucial parts of my brain can't remember and are about to split open, and it's using up a lot of energy..."
As he spoke, Luke suddenly poked the other two, stopping mid-sentence. When they looked at him in confusion, he gestured with his chin towards the elevator.
They saw a figure had arrived on the top floor.
"Father~"
"It's Angel Mika!"
The two almost shouted in unison. They had chased Angel Mika to this city of angels and followed him into this tower the angels called the Babel Tower.
Not knowing where Angel Mika had gone, they had come to the top floor first. They hadn't expected Angel Mika to now be behind them.
The Progenitor, who had been busy all along, heard the call and turned to look. Seeing Angel Mika, he revealed a gentle smile.
"You're here. Wait a moment."
The Progenitor's hands were still operating something on the light screens.
Angel Mika happily offered up the ice cream in his hand.
"I got it~ Let's eat together, Father!"
Only then did the Progenitor stop his actions. Frowning, he came before Angel Mika, looking at the unmelted ice cream in his hand with an indescribably complex expression.
After a long moment, he finally spoke to reprimand him.
"You went into the city again? I recall you were forbidden from going."
Then the Progenitor looked beside Mika and said.
"Didn't I instruct you to take good care of him?"
It was only then that Luke and the others noticed the one-eyed black sphere floating beside Angel Mika—the same kind they had seen before.
The Progenitor was now speaking to the one-eyed black sphere.
"It's not Yu's fault! I was the one who insisted on bringing him along!"
Seeing his rare companion being blamed, Angel Mika hurriedly spoke up in his defense, afraid the Progenitor might do something to "Yu."
Mika's mouth opened slightly. He pointed at Yuichiro, then at the one-eyed black sphere that Angel Mika had called Yu.
"Yu, were you this kind of creature before?!"
Even Krul looked at Yuichiro with some surprise.
Yuichiro himself couldn't figure out the situation either. Maybe that really was the case...?
Only Luke, who knew some of the hidden circumstances, remained silent, just quietly watching the Progenitor and Angel Mika.
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