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Ivan stood before the shattered window with a pale face, his forehead covered in small beads of sweat. His back was drenched. It felt like an intangible power had hit him, making him freeze in place. His shocked eyes glinted with disbelief. Through his agape mouth, his teeth could be seen chattering.
Everything else fell away, leaving only the degenerate man and… only the degenerate man. At that moment, he felt a shock and confusion that he could not describe. His whole world was broken down and put back together because of what he saw.
A powerful fear rose in his heart, unbidden. The reality was that his daughter, Holy Maiden Anastasia of the Church of Darkness, had not fallen. It was his faith, the Goddess of Darkness, who had fallen.
He would rather it were his daughter!
As a certain someone had said, if you suggest putting a skylight in a dark house, others would object, but if you suggest taking down the roof, others would agree to a skylight as a compromise[1].
That was what was happening to Ivan. He remembered his daughter’s resigned yet hardened attitude and wanted nothing but to slap himself. He just had to stick his nose in when she told him to...
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