Lord of the Truth

"Qarun?"

"He’s the commander of the Stellar Academies!!"

"Is this really the first time he’s ever appeared publicly like this? I’ve never seen him before. For someone like him to personally come forward and speak to everyone, this must be an extremely important matter..."

Inside the countless halls of the Soul Society, everyone gradually abandoned whatever they had been doing and turned their full attention toward the broadcast playing before them. Qaron’s opening words about coming before them with a heavy heart seemed to carry an unusual weight of their own, causing the hearts of those listening to him to grow heavier as well while they waited to hear what could possibly have driven such a figure to appear personally.

<...There is a grave and extremely dangerous revelation that I have decided to share with all of you today, and once I have placed everything before you, I will leave you with the complete freedom to choose and judge for yourselves as the children of this universe and its rightful owners.> Qaron continued speaking in an exceptionally calm manner, allowing every word to reach his listeners clearly.

".......?!??"



Qaron’s expression gradually twisted with visible sorrow as he continued addressing everyone watching him.

Then Qaron calmly closed his eyes and fell completely silent, apparently giving everyone watching enough time to do exactly what he had requested... but despite his sudden silence, the recording itself didn’t stop.

"...?"

"Did you get the message?"

"Shh, I’m reading it!"

In practically the same instant, hundreds of millions of people throughout the Soul Society opened their private inboxes to check what Qarun had just mentioned, only to discover that the message he had promised had indeed already arrived and was waiting for them.

Upon opening the message, around ninety different names immediately appeared before them, each one glowing conspicuously in golden letters, and whenever someone pressed on any one of those names, an additional box would appear containing a summarized account of that person’s history, accompanied by another summary describing the atrocities and disasters that person had caused.

And at the bottom of every single one of those boxes were historical sources related to the information being presented, along with methods through which anyone who refused to believe what they were reading could conduct their own independent research and investigate the matter personally!

"My heavens..."

"The Great War that happened inside Mid Sector 81 all those years ago was actually the work of that Seer?"

"He’s also the one behind the devastation that happened in Sector 445!!"

"The Archon, the leader of the Hidden Hand, is actually named Sevar? He’s one of them too!!"

"No wonder. He’s the greatest devil in the entire universe and the one behind everything evil. Of course someone like him would turn out to be one of them!"

"What the hell is wrong with that Seer, and what exactly does he want from us?!"

"Hmm?"

"Look at the bottom of the list!!"

Sooner or later, as more and more people continued examining the long list of names and the information attached to each one, everyone’s attention eventually moved toward the very bottom, and the instant they saw the final name written there, their eyes widened to their absolute limits in disbelief... because there was a name at the bottom that practically all of them knew extremely well.

Robin Burton.

With their mouths hanging open and their minds reeling from the shock of seeing such a familiar name included among all those people, everyone hurriedly pressed on it to see what information had been recorded beneath it... and what appeared before them was a list of crimes that surpassed all the previous ones combined.

Starting with the destruction of what was referred to as the Ancestor Continent and the oppression of Planet Nihari, the report continued through the establishment of the two terrorist organizations known as the Shadow Swords and the Black Wasps, the attacks launched against the peaceful Sectors 99 and 100, supporting and contributing to a cosmic war in Mid Sector 101, killing two Behemoths, and carrying out brutal military expansion across more than twenty different sectors.

Every war that had occurred during the previous millennium and possessed any connection whatsoever to Robin, whether that connection was direct or indirect, was carefully mentioned by name and date, and whenever someone pressed on the name of any one of those wars, they would immediately find additional details about the losses that had resulted from it, accompanied by an exaggerated explanation emphasizing the bloodshed and brutality involved.

There was also a detailed explanation concerning every one of Robin Burton’s inventions and how each individual invention had supposedly contributed in one way or another to igniting wars and spilling blood throughout the universe, with all of those inventions ultimately being portrayed as tools that contributed to the human sacrifices he was offering for whatever mysterious evil he was supposedly preparing.

And of course, Robin Burton’s relationship with the imps going back many years was prominently mentioned as well, together with an explanation claiming that he deliberately sent those creatures away to feed upon other planets so that he could keep them far from his own people, all while continuing to lead and control them until the day eventually came when he would need them to wipe out the universe.

The manner in which the entire report had been written and the way every event had been presented made Robin appear capable of competing directly with Sevar himself for first place when it came to the amount of cosmic destruction he had caused and the sheer vileness of his character...

Silence

At that moment, while everyone had fallen completely silent and remained staring in disbelief at the extraordinarily long list of crimes displayed before them... Qarun’s voice suddenly resounded once again, drawing everyone’s attention back toward the recording.



Qarun paused and took a deep breath before continuing.



Then Qarun slowly lowered his gaze toward the luxurious desk before him, his expression becoming increasingly heavy.

Then Drop a single tear slowly rolled down from behind the black glasses concealing Qarun’s eyes.

<...And when he realized that he couldn’t get what he wanted that way, his response was to plot a scheme to kill him.>

"........!!!!" The hearts of the people watching immediately began pounding with tremendous force inside their chests, while many of their eyes nearly lost focus entirely beneath the sheer intensity of the anger that suddenly surged through them after hearing those words.



Sniff Qarun drew in a breath before continuing with his voice filled with emotion.

Woop

The recording finally ended.