"Who killed Klein?"
Without hesitation, Angel asked her first question.
Of course, he had killed me too, but I was alive again now. Did that mean he had really killed me?
Such a bizarre question surfaced in her mind, trapping her in circular reasoning, until Arianna's gentle, tranquil answer pulled her back to reality.
"His name is Ince Zangwill. You should have seen him on the wanted notice circulated within the Church."
Ince Zangwill...
Angel searched her memories. With that name as a prompt, she quickly found that wanted notice buried deep in her mind.
"Ince Zangwill, forty years old, a 'Gatekeeper' who failed to advance to High Sequence. Tempted by devils, he fell into evil and fled three years ago with the Sealed Artifact '0-08.'"
Short dark-golden hair, deep blue pupils, a high nose bridge—and most importantly, blind in one eye.
Comparing it with the expressionless face she had seen before her death, she confirmed that he was the traitor wanted by the Church.
"But why did he kill us? Was it to let the Evil God Almighty descend and make the Aurora Order's conspiracy succeed?"
She pressed anxiously, but Arianna only smiled faintly and did not answer at once.
The lights around them suddenly dimmed. The surrounding stone walls and the wooden table before Angel vanished from her sight, leaving only Arianna in her plain clothes.
Only then did the latter begin answering.
"We can only discuss it here. Once you leave this room, the more you know about it, the easier it will be for it to sense you and write you into the story it weaves."
"It?"
Angel asked in confusion, suddenly recalling the description on the wanted notice.
"You mean that stolen Sealed Artifact, '0-08'?"
In the Church records she had access to, that Sealed