"I'd rather call it... giving up," the crow-masked man said. "Not every follower of the Four Pillars Cult is a bad person. Most were once believers in other sects. In fact, the earliest Four Pillars Cult seems to have originated from a sect that lost its Grand Law.

"Back then, everyone chose to follow the Grand Law and resist the night. But the Four Pillars offered them another choice: to indulge in the present. After losing the Grand Law, not everyone could hold fast to their ideals and continue walking through the darkness. Faced with the easier path from the Four Pillars, the people chose it, and that's how the cult spread like wildfire. Besides..." 

The crow-masked man sighed. "It's been over two hundred years since the Gray Fox Age, and not a single Grand Law has ascended to godhood. Ideals have become hopelessly out of reach. That fertile ground allowed the...