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Those were words that contained no transcendent power.
They were neither secrets from before the second era nor knowledge about the Otherworld.
They were merely the repeated vows of the pact Elle had once made.
In the final moment of the gallery nightmare, the dying Elle and the newborn Angelo cried out their first scream—
With Annan's chanting, above the already shattered grey sky, more cracks appeared. Like glass being smashed... Iridescent light spilled out, turning into chains that bound the two-faced grey giant above.
Those were chains formed from the oath and curse of the "pact."
It was those chains, not Annan's chanting itself, that caused the grey youth's action of raising his fists to smash down to halt...
"—I curse you, to be eventually betrayed by your own dreams. You shall exhaust your talents, wither in spirit, become deserted by all... until you finally betray your dreams.
