〚However, I have already determined that the standards of this planet are exceedingly poor and primitive. Thus, my demand is very simple—simple enough even for you savages to carry out.〛
Whether someone was going out of their mind from humiliation or not, the terrorist’s threats continued without pause.
〚I hear that reaching the ‘First Sea,’ where the Collector resides, requires either sacrificing the Pope or thirteen cardinal-grade Stigmas……. Unlike you savages, raised in a barbaric civilization, I have devoted my entire life to cultivating magic—the greatest and most beautiful discipline in the history of the cosmos—within a highly advanced civilization. Fortunately for you, I have no hobby of wasting my time on uncultured activities such as unnecessary slaughter, so—〛
“But isn’t this terrorist…… kind of talkative?”
“Th-This is the first guy I’ve seen talk this much since Hook Jio’s wanted poster!”
“…….”
〚Six hours. I shall give you exactly six hours. Bring me thirteen Stigmas within that time. Ah, are you wondering why six?〛
“No…….”
“No one asked……!”
〚Because six is the most perfect number in the world. Among the countless natural numbers, six is the first perfect number whose divisors other than itself add up to the number itself, and when one considers how extraordinarily rare this mathematical property is, one can only call it mysterious. More than fifty perfect numbers…