“…At times, the sheer consistency of your nature leaves me in awe.”
No, why?
What the hell did I even do?
“I do not know how painful becoming the wedge may be. But to become the wedge is to volunteer as the passage connecting two worlds. It will require no small amount of strength, and naturally the burden one feels cannot help but be immense.”
“…Then keeping Satan from escaping in the first place would be best.”
“I agree. But it will not be easy.”
I suppressed the urge to grumble and turned to the rest of my questions.
Just because the thing I had been most curious about was resolved didn’t mean every scattered problem had disappeared.
It was only natural to move on to the next one.
“More importantly, if Satan does escape… do we fight Satan in Hell then?”
“Yes.”
Commandment gave me a look that practically said, You’re asking that now?
I stubbornly continued anyway.
“What else do we need to consider?”
The Demon Realm was itself a place somewhat terraformed from a demon’s perspective.
Even so, it couldn’t possibly be as familiar as the home planet itself.
Variables like that were things we ought to account for in advance.
I had no idea what sort of home-field advantage Satan would gain, or what penalties we would suffer the instant we entered Hell.
“There is nothing either you or I need be wary of.”
“…Is there something that will cause problems for the others?”
“Demonic Energy.”
But Commandment brought up…