On the coast, the Kudou Sisters couldn't interfere in the dispute and could only wait anxiously.
Just then, the Typhon avatar, who had been uninterested in them before, suddenly turned its gaze toward the three of them.
"You're that guy's companions. Are you also oppressors who conduct human experiments?"
The Typhon avatar's gaze swept past Pest, moved away from Kudou Ayatori, and finally settled on Kudou Asuka.
"On you, I seem to smell a trace of King Minos... and Touya. But it's not quite the same."
Seeing the brute who could easily crush Izayoi level such an accusation at her, Kudou Asuka, who had been a little scared, frowned deeply.
"Of course not! Even if you're strong, you can't lump this lady in with that scum!"
Anger dissolved her fear. More than death, she refused to be seen as an accomplice to the mastermind.
Hearing Asuka's words, the Typhon avatar was somewhat taken aback.
The girl's anger was so sharp and pure, her disdain for evildoers plain to see. She looked absolutely incapable of doing such a filthy thing.
But having been deceived by King Minos and Saigo Touya before, he couldn't completely trust the girl's character. He continued to question her.
"Then why are you standing with that man's son?"
"That man's son... you mean Izayoi?" Kudou Asuka confirmed, stalling for time.
"Yes," the Typhon avatar nodded.
"Even if you didn't know before, you should know now what a vile thing that man did."
"If you truly despise the sin of human experimentation, then you shouldn't associate with such a man's son, nor should you stand with him, blocking my path!"
It was clear the Typhon avatar's moral standards were indeed high.
Just as he had destroyed the Vatican without killing a single person, now, even though he saw Saigo Izayoi as an enemy, he still had no intention of slaughtering his companions, the Kudou Sisters. Instead, he questioned their conscience.
An ordinary person would have apologized and yielded by now, and the Typhon avatar would surely have let them go.
As long as their hands weren't stained with the blood of the victims, he wouldn't deliver a killing blow, even if the nature of their power was highly suspicious or if they were using the results of experiments derived from those victims.
Unfortunately, while Kudou Asuka's waist might be supple, her character was anything but.
Faced with Typhon's denunciation, not only did she show no sign of compromise, but her eyes widened in fury.
"Even if Izayoi is a real piece of work, that's no reason for you to slander my companion in front of me! I don't know what his father did, but to place the sins of the father upon the child—do you think that's just?"
Hearing Kudou Asuka's words, the Typhon avatar, who had been calm until now, started seeing red.
"If the sins of the parents are not passed down to their children, then why should the parents' protection be enjoyed by the children without restraint? Do you think the shallow ideologies of the last hundred years of modern society can completely wash away that man's sins?"
As someone from ancient times, his views on good, evil, and ethics were not entirely the same as a modern person's.
What Kudou Asuka considered common sense was simply incomprehensible to him.
Although the Typhon avatar wasn't completely old-fashioned, he couldn't forgive Kudou Asuka's flippant attitude, treating such a grave sin as if it were nothing.
"Push all the sins onto one person, allow them to commit evil, and then wantonly enjoy the rights they've seized through sin, all while claiming to be innocent?"
The Typhon avatar gritted his teeth, a bitter laugh escaping his lips.
"No wonder you can use the fruits built upon the remains of us victims so calmly and without a shred of guilt. No wonder you have the makings of a pantheon leader... I see now. You, King Minos, and Zeus are all the same type of person. You intend to use our bones to build your hell!"
By the end, his gaze toward Kudou Asuka was filled with hatred.
He had already taken issue with the nature of Kudou Asuka's abilities from the start.
Using the corpses of victims to fight him, a victim himself—what kind of sick joke was that?
Not to mention Asuka possessed divinity and had the makings of a pantheon leader. Wasn't that just like the King of the Gods, Zeus, who had once deceived him? A complete hypocrite!
He knew this type of hypocrite well.
They trick victims into sacrificing themselves for world peace, only to exploit that kindness, trample on that goodwill, and build their own kingdoms and pantheons on the bones of those sacrificed in human experiments.
Without a doubt, that is an oppressor.
"If that's the case, then there's no need for more words! The suffering my avatar endured will be repaid with the blood of your pantheon!"
"Your corpses will be the justice of this world!"
Roaring, the Typhon avatar took two steps forward, his aggressive stance making it clear he was about to eliminate Kudou Asuka as an enemy.
"My Lady, wait, don't provoke him!" Saigo Homura pleaded desperately through their communication channel.
Percher tugged at the corner of Kudou Asuka's clothes, trembling.
Under such pressure, even Kudou Asuka's legs felt a little weak.
Even the Bull of Heaven at full power was only suited for area-of-effect attacks and couldn't break through this monster's defenses. If they fought, she would certainly lose.
However, even if defeat was certain, even if she might die, Kudou Asuka refused to back down here.
So, she gave a cold laugh, her sharp gaze fixed on him.
"I can't refute that I've inherited the legacy of the victims. If you want to see this lady as an oppressor, I have no intention of explaining myself. Kill me or cut me up, do as you please. But before that, I must point out one mistake you've made."
"What mistake?"
Seeing Kudou Asuka's composed attitude, the Typhon avatar slowed his steps and asked with a hint of confusion.
"You just said that because children enjoy the protection of their parents, they must also accept their parents' sins, right?" Kudou Asuka retorted.
"That is correct," the Typhon avatar nodded.
Though his thinking was rigid, it wasn't completely inflexible. After all, his avatar was one of King Minos's illegitimate sons.
If the sins of father and son were truly indistinguishable, he would have no right to seek revenge as a victim.
His own justification for being a victim was built on the fact that his father's deception caused his avatar to commit monstrous sins.
Therefore, if other parents commit such a crime against their own child, the bond of inheritance between father and son is severed, and the sin is naturally not passed down.
"If that's the case, then shouldn't you, of all people, not be attacking Izayoi?" Kudou Asuka demanded righteously.
"Why?"
The Typhon avatar didn't understand her meaning, thinking she was just trying to buy time.
"Because on this matter, Izayoi is also a victim."
Kudou Asuka, without any hesitation, said what Izayoi had held back, thinking it would be a sign of weakness.
"Haven't you noticed? He's the Third Stellar Particle Codex Holder! In other words, the greatest result of his father Saigo Touya's human experiments... is his own son!"
"What?!"
The sudden information left the Typhon avatar stunned.
He stared at Kudou Asuka, dumbfounded, only fully grasping her meaning after more than ten seconds.
"Touya... actually used his own son for human experiments?!"
An incredibly complex expression appeared on the Typhon avatar's face.
The crossroads to hell are so similar, no matter the era. Thousands of years ago, King Minos also experimented on his own son—this very avatar.
"So... he's a victim too?"