After detouring to the new safe house in the East Borough to change clothes and using Black Flame for Anti-Divination, Angel finally returned home to Red Rose Street.
Besides Anti-Divination, she also tried more "traditional" counter-surveillance measures this time: changing carriages, taking detours, watching behind her, and even passing through a café that was still open after nightfall, entering through the front door and leaving through the back to shake off any possible pursuers.
Part of it was due to Dominic's warning before he left, but more of it was an instinctive reaction after Ms. Lola, that Demoness of Pleasure, had tracked her down.
After washing up at home, Angel hid in the basement and sorted through the special ammunition she intended to sell, her remaining Spiritual Materials, and the precious Star Crystals. Only a few grams of the latter remained, not enough to make another batch of Storm Convergence. She urgently needed to replenish them at Mr. A's gathering.
Moreover, it had been more than a week since she last attended a gathering. She felt it was time to return and make contact with the Demoness Sect.
This would be her only way to increase her strength, advance to Sequence 6, and get closer to the true culprit behind the evil god's descent in Tingen City.
Although Ms. Lola had said today that she was a Sequence 6 Demoness of Pleasure who had left the Demoness Sect, and seemed to be covertly trying to recruit her, Angel did not trust this mysterious woman whom she had met only twice.
Considering the acting methods beginning with Assassin, anyone who had reached her level, willingly or otherwise, would have blood from many innocent people on her hands. Even in the best light, she could only be someone weary of killing, not