‘If it’s a transcendent… then it might be possible to escape from the shackles of the system.’

A transcendent being could exist separately from anything, so it was possible for one to somehow distort DIO’s defenses and break in.

In other words, if a universe-wandering transcendent happened to come across DIO, which existed on the surface of Earth’s moon, that being could enter DIO.

‘Maybe that’s why DIO contains more transcendents than necessary. Well, anyway….’

Merlin stopped his train of thought and looked at Arc.

There was no chance that Arc had transcended. Thus, Merlin briefly considered the possibility of someone impersonating her; however, Merlin’s intuition told him this wasn’t the case.

Merlin nodded, knowing he could trust his intuition, which was usually correct. Although, it wasn’t at the level of foreseeing the future.

“Well, I guess, for whatever reason,...