Not long after the Paradise Bird left, Russell too left to search for Inferiors.
With two curtains, one black and one white, drawn from the void, Tovatus appeared beside All Cooked.
He had seen everything.
"How interesting..."
The Dissenter murmured in a low voice:
"People from the Upper City District regard those in the Lower City District as scum, whereas those in the Lower City District see the Upper City District folk as pigs and rogues…
"Mages see just a halo and regard it as an Angel, treating them as the enemy; Angels see just a spell and view the other as a Mage, treating them as lunatics. Each person, seeing just a fragment of the truth, concludes the identity of the other on their own.
"... It kind of reminds me of an Elf joke from the Earth Era."
That was when people still lived on the ground and there were no Spiritual Energy Users, Demons, or Angels in the world.