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These judges were not solitary. Each was connected by threads of luminous fate to those within the world.

One was bound to Nana. A divine arbiter, watching over the goddess of world herself.

And then—

One was bound to her.

A deep, intrinsic connection tethered Xerosis to a judge, a guardian of her justice, one that had always existed beyond her understanding.

Curiosity overwhelmed her. She reached out—not physically, but with her soul, drawn deeper into the fabric of judgment itself.

And then—

She saw it.

Something vast.

Something immeasurable.

A presence so immense it did not simply exist—it encompassed. It was not a god, nor a force. It was something older, greater, something that had always been.

The moment she glimpsed it, her soul was pulled toward it.

She could not resist.