Wasn't the street beside the warehouse at the original Municipal Building site where Schiller had said the mutated flying python appeared? It was a whole street of addicts, so a few magical phenomena showing up there was hardly surprising.
Although Schiller knew who the priest was, he had no intention of using his knowledge of the plot to go straight to him. That seemed at odds with Schiller's pursuit of efficiency, but simply finding the man would be useless.
Whenever Schiller went to talk to someone, he was certain he could make them speak. Otherwise, he would not bother going at all.
Negotiations only meant something when you held chips in your hand. Showing up casually without any leverage would only expose your own information. It could practically be called aiding the enemy, and Schiller would never do anything that stupid.
This priest had played an extremely important role in the original plot. It could be said that all the mess in the Pale Rider comic universe had been stirred up by him. If he had not meddled, none of this would have happened.
The more troublesome part was that the priest truly was not human. His human disguise went by the name Jason Brad, but his real name was Etrigan, and he was a demon.
This demon leaned toward neutrality as a character. He had done plenty of bad things in the past, but he was not some utterly heinous archvillain. He was not even a fun-seeker. It felt more like he had lived too long, gotten bored, and found trouble to occupy himself.
Obtaining chips that could be used to negotiate with him would take some effort. So even though Schiller knew the exact address, he still had to investigate step by step and see if he could