After hearing what Hawa said, Chi-Woo went to see La Bella right away. As usual, La Bella was standing alone while holding a balance scale in one hand.

—You’ve accomplished quite the feat.

La Bella didn’t sound pleased, but a little like she was reprimanding him. After all, interfering with the past was nothing to take lightly, and with a single mishap, the present could’ve turned into a mess. Considering how dangerous what Chi-Woo did was, it was reasonable that she would want to chide Chi-Woo a bit.

—But…you did well.

In the end, however, she gave Chi-Woo a compliment. Using stocks or coin market as an analogy, the higher the risks he undertook, the greater the rewards would be, and this time, Chi-Woo struck gold. It was enough to pay back all the principals he had been pushing off and even accumulate savings. But to do this, Chi-Woo had to overcome another great hurdle.

—Those who’ve been warily surveilling your movements are on their utmost guard now.

—They had sensed that their plans were getting thwarted and pinpointed Shalyh as the source of this interference. Thus, their plan had been to collect the World’s residual resentment left on Liber before upending your plan and killing you.

This was aligned with what Boboris had told him. Usually, revealing what his enemies planned to do would’ve been a grave sin equivalent to revealing the secrets of the heavens. But La Bella could now reveal it calmly because this action was no longer possible to carry out. After all, the World wasn’t extinguished, and thus no resentment remained on Liber.

—That still doesn’t change the...