Spirit of Time: "As for why I absorb time, this is just my ability. I need to absorb time to increase my spiritual power. As for the purpose, please allow me to keep it a secret for now."
With Rosen's help, Tokisaki Kurumi was also willing to share her information.
However, for other matters, Tokisaki Kurumi still felt it was better to keep them hidden for now.
Hell's Fubuki: "After all, everyone has their own secrets."
Spirit of Time: "It's really great that you understand."
Bad Woman: "Suddenly, there's something I might need to explain to everyone. I might encounter some trouble next, so I might need to ask for your help."
After thinking it through, Makima chose to say this at this moment.
Fallen Angel: "Okay, okay, but what kind of help specifically? Exorcism? If it's that, I'm good at it!"
Bad Woman: "It's similar in nature. I might have angered some people, so they'll send assassins to kill me. I can't handle it alone."
I Don't Want to Eat Monsters: "Huh? Assassination?! But isn't Miss Makima a government employee? Why would she be assassinated?"
Bad Woman: "Because my ideals and what I want to do have shaken their interests."
Hell's Fubuki: "Just that? And if it's something you 'want to do,' it means you haven't done it yet, right?"
Bad Woman: "Yes, that's why they plan to kill me before my plan is implemented."
Spirit of Time: "So... what is Miss Makima going to do?"
Tokisaki Kurumi's heart stirred.
If Makima needed help, could she then travel to her world?
This way, it would at least be safer than inviting others into her own world.
It would be a good opportunity to interact with these group members in person and see their true colors.
Moreover, what Tokisaki Kurumi most wanted to know was what kind of man Rosen truly was.
Bad Woman: "It might make you all laugh."
I Don't Want to Eat Monsters: "We're all group members, how could we laugh at you!"
Magic Old Man: "Indeed, if we're going to laugh, it'll be at a certain shut-in angel."
Fallen Angel: "Elf Old Man!"
Leaving Gabriel and Frieren's bickering aside, Rosen was surprised that Makima intended to confess so early.
After all, he could guess why Makima didn't participate in group missions at first.
It was nothing more than her concern that her identity as the Control Devil would be exposed, causing other group members to be wary and suspicious of her.
However, although Makima was the kind of woman who would stop at nothing to achieve her goals, she would not act against the group members.
After all, the chat group's rule against members harming each other alone prohibited her from controlling other group members.
Bad Woman: "I want to achieve true equality."
Hell's Fubuki: "Equality?"
Bad Woman: "That's right, I want to dismantle the inherent dominance relationships in human society, eliminate the influence of death, war, hunger, and other concepts on the world, and thereby create a world without dominance and oppression."
After Makima finished speaking, there was silence in the chat group for a long time.
Shepherd: "A very noble idea."
Spirit of Time: "I didn't expect... Miss Makima's philosophy to be so... grand."
I Don't Want to Eat Monsters: "I-is that really true?!"
Hell's Fubuki: "Is this real?"
Magic Old Man: "Even more angelic than Gabriel."
Fallen Angel: "Hey!"
Gabriel wanted to retort.
But as someone who had finished watching the first arc, she knew Makima's goal had indeed been this from beginning to end.
(ahdj) Although she encountered many obstacles and killed many innocents in the process of achieving this idea, it was like the trolley problem.
Compared to others who would find it difficult to choose, Makima decisively chose the path that would save more lives.
Despite being a Devil, she held the lofty ideal of transforming the world into a utopia.
At least for now, Gabriel did not possess such noble aspirations.
Ice Witch: "That sounds a bit strange."
Bad Woman: "It is strange, isn't it? But I really do want to do that, because my world has too many problems, and every time a problem arises, it's accompanied by a large number of human casualties. The existing human society is also unfair, which is why I want to do this."
I Don't Want to Eat Monsters: "But if that's really the case? Wouldn't that be great? Then why... would other people still try to assassinate Miss Makima?"
Hell's Fubuki: "Perhaps it's because if true equality is achieved, then the concepts of nation-states and factions would cease to exist. Everyone in the world would be humans living on Earth, not distinguished by countries and organizations. Trade would also become unnecessary, and nations would naturally disintegrate."
Magic Old Man: "But how would you do it? The ideal is beautiful, but a so-called utopia is inherently just a fantasy."
Bad Woman: "In my world, Devils are born from various concepts or rules, fears, desires, and other strong emotions. If a Devil born from a certain concept can be completely killed, then the corresponding concept will also disappear from the world."
This setting was very interesting.
Rosen also knew that in Makima's world, many countries once possessed weapons like nuclear bombs.
However, with the Cold War and people's fear of nuclear bombs, the Nuclear Bomb Devil was born and killed many people.
But later, the Chainsaw Devil, who could devour other Devils, killed and consumed the Nuclear Bomb Devil, and the concept of nuclear bombs disappeared from the world and people's minds.
Nuclear weapons naturally vanished.
Therefore, Makima's plan was very simple.
It was to use the power of the Chainsaw Devil to kill other Devils that would affect world equality.
As long as concepts like hunger, war, and death disappeared,
a true utopia could be achieved!
Of course, this was just Makima's idea.
In Rosen's eyes, while Makima's idea was respectable, it was impossible to achieve.
Even if those Root Demons were truly killed, what would follow would not be a utopia, but an anti-utopian world.