“Ahh, that reminds me, I have a feeling that that theory does also exist. I also don’t remember well but…”
“Hmm..”
“What’s wrong? Suimei-kun”
“Mazoku… what they are. I have my own theory.”
“Fumu. Your thinking eh? Interesting.”
“Do you want to hear it?”
“Yeah because as it is I do have an interest in it”
...is what she said but what he was thinking was pretty admirable. Lefille was laughing with sheer admiration. However, that face was honestly an interest from the heart, and showed her anticipation. The possibility that he arrived at the truth was improbable. Anyway, about that.
Now then, first...
“Listen, first is, from the definition of the evil god in your story.”
Suimei had come into contact with what was known as devils or spirits in his original world. They basically exist in the outer world, a theoretical existence that possessed power similar to that of legends. They could be summoned with spells, given a name and its existence defined. After that, they will appear in the world as devils or spirits.
The spirits defined in the original world were vague without a fixed appearance, just an information like existence. And god— the god here referring to a higher level of existence than spirits— was not just a vague existence like spirits, but a powerful body of information with a will of their own.
In other words the evil god is…
“... The evil god exists in the gaps between dimensions, which is the outer world, and its goal is to fill the world with chaos. Even now, it is watching this place closely from the outer world, hoping to accomplish its goal. But that thing’s existence is bounded there, and can’t interfere with this world directly like the times of the ancient goddess war. In its place, the Mazoku that serve the evil god inherit its will, and are bestowed with the powers of the evil god they worship, squirming in the dark to fill the world with chaos.”
“Muu…”
“Well… it’s a cliched story but, that’s the script if you think about our earlier conversation. Things started during the beginning of the world, when the seed of future strife was planted… oops”
Whether everything about the Mazoku was like that, he didn’t know but, noticing his digression, he went back on topic.
“For practical problems that’s fine but, concerning that puppet Mazoku… that’s it. In the first place his specifications are different, because his body’s strength is different than humans, they followed a different evolutionary path than living beings, or it’s the case that the evil god designed them. Whichever one it is, I don’t know for sure. That’s the impression I got from the story before.”
“That’s a quite interesting conjecture.”
“Thanks. If it’s the case with divine protection then, then I expect that most of their power is the evil god’s. The black energy coming from the Mazoku is that.”
To the concluding Suimei, Lefille slipped in a question.
“...? That’s not a characteristic of the Mazoku?”
“That’s right. It’s not a power that those living creatures carry naturally. The power inconsistent with the world and nature is not produced by that world, it’s the truth that it’s definitely not produced. Nobody would deliberately be harmful to themselves right? The world is the same. That’s why it is useful to depend on existences that cannot exist in the world. This power that runs contrary to the logic of this world can only exist because of the influence of something not of this world. For example, what’s that thing called...”
“Evil god huh.”