It's not that he's narrow-minded and refuses to acknowledge someone else as an evil spirit, it's just that...
Less than a month had passed since Gary Smith had last crushed the strong enemy during the Month of Fertility. How could his strength possibly surge so dramatically?
This wasn't just a rocket-like advancement; it was as if he'd ridden a time-space travel machine.
Even direct descendants of a True King need time to grow!
This guy's experiences simply don't conform to any logical reality!
So, like most people, Azure speculated that maybe the Mecha Queen and "The World" lady among the three heads of the King of Order, for the sake of promotion, had already left behind a vast array of methods and entrusted them to Gary Smith for his use.
After all, he wasn't from the Mechanism King's Domain, yet his performance seemed as if he had read the script in advance; surely someone was teaching him from behind the scenes.