Kure then suddenly turned towards Ozul, and with a glint in his eyes, he spoke, "You... are you also a candidate this time?"
Ozul didn't try to hide it and simply nodded his head.
There was no point in hiding something like that anyway. Quite the opposite, he also wanted the Church to know that he was a candidate.
"Haha! Indeed, how could you not?! Good! Good," Kure laughed in delight and asked, "You will surely be the only Rank-9 there! Ah, I really want to look at that old witch's face when I tell her that you are my descendant."
Though when he said those words, he noticed Ozul's stare and only then remembered that he wasn't in the family. So he couldn't boast in front of anyone that he was the descendant of the Ashin family.
His body drooped like a deflated balloon as he tried asking him once more, "You sure don't want to-"
"No, I don't," Ozul didn't need to think twice about it.
