"If I exorcised demons like this every day, I'd digest the 'Clown' Potion in less than a month."
With a gloomy expression, Klein tossed the emptied holy water bottle to Leonard. The latter caught it with a grin and said:
"Then I suggest you go straight to the circus in West Borough. Maybe in just one week, Her Excellency the 'Sword of the Goddess' will come help you advance to Sequence 7."
"As long as you're willing to play a curly-haired baboon jumping through rings of fire."
Watching the two mercilessly mock each other, Angel smiled faintly, feeling her chest grow much warmer.
Oh, it was the temperature of the Sun Holy Emblem. Never mind.
Taking the "Mutated Sun Holy Emblem" from her chest, she checked her pocket watch and found that less than two hours remained before reaching the limit for contact with the Sealed Artifact.
"Let's hurry back to the church. Then we can take turns guarding the emblem and recover our strength, or we might run out of time."
She interrupted their conversation and proposed it.
The three of them—or rather, Klein, who was drenched in sweat from all the work—had already cleared every "haunted" location in Morse Town. Several divinations had yielded no additional discoveries.
Already heading toward the church, they quickened their pace and soon returned to the Church of the Evernight Goddess in the center of town.
After explaining to Priest Siel that they needed to use the church for a while and subtly indicating that approaching it might involve some danger, the priest vacated the building for them.
Fortunately, no believers came to the church at noon. Once Siel left, only the three Nighthawks remained inside.
"It takes more than three hours to return to Tingen. We'd better all rest for an hour