"The Divine Judgement..." The phrase hung in the air, catching Galenka completely off-guard.
It was a revelation Rocco had carefully withheld—not out of malice, but to shield her from the suffocating weight of an anxiety she was ill-equipped to handle. She understood his silence, yet the omission stung.
"Are you suggesting that a higher being... that a divine entity truly exists?"
Yaoyan surged to her feet, the tension coiled in her posture and vibrating through her sharp, strained voice.
"Divinity is an ambiguous term. Who are we to discern the line between the demonic and the divine? I possess no such arrogance," Yaoyan countered, her gaze steel-hard. "But yes. These beings wield the absolute authority to judge every soul across the cosmos. We might label them angels, or perhaps, as the ancients did—devas."
