Wayne questioned the goddess’s purity. Based on what he knew about the idol industry, the goddess’s purity was merely religious propaganda to exploit followers.0

Disregarding his personal prejudices, though, if the Goddess of Nature was pure and inexperienced, and after he became the Anointed One, she browsed through his memory and relived all the midnight shows he had starred in from the first-person point of view, with many a female star featured in the soap opera… Clearly, the church’s only Anointed One would catch a cold and meet a sudden death that night.0

Wayne would never be the Anointed One. Not even he was bold enough to attempt that. He said to the grave-looking Senna, “You misunderstood, Master Senna. I’m too untalented to become the Anointed One. I’m only here as Veronica’s bodyguard. She is the star here.”0

Then he brought up the dragon blood, too, asking Senna for a few more liters to ensure Veronica’s victory.0

“Dragon blood is precious, so we only measure it by grams. Moreover, there is no great dragon in the Chosen...0