"The aura of Calamity?"
The first word that came to Angel's mind was, strangely, "Bansy."
She remembered the island where she had found the Calamity Charm and its eerie harbor: the fog, the night of relentless wind, the heads without bodies and the bodies without heads.
Then there was the bloody Mountain Top Cave, the "Storm Bishop" who had sacrificed living people, and finally the runes that had sent her thousands of miles away to Trier.
According to Mr. Azik's subsequent investigation, all of it was undoubtedly connected to that trace of Calamity.
"It reminds you of Bansy Harbor, doesn't it?"
Bernadette's sea-blue eyes turned to Angel, as though she had seen through every thought in her mind.
She guessed it... But it was easy enough to understand. "Angelica Zaki" had first appeared on a wanted poster for killing a bishop of the Church of Storms, and it would have been easy to discover that it happened in Bansy. As a Pirate King, Bernadette had probably visited Bansy Harbor after the Church of Storms razed it. With her High Sequence strength—possibly even Sequence 3—it would not have been hard for her to sense the Calamity there, just as Mr. Azik had...
After a moment's thought, Angel nodded.
"The ability I used to destroy half of the Black Tulip came from there."
She volunteered the information in the hope of gaining help from the knowledgeable Queen Mystic.
"That power is unlike the Beyonder Abilities of any Pathway I've encountered. It may even contain some kind of high-level 'authority.' In your current state, knowing too much would do you no good... But Katarina wasn't lying to you. The key to your promotion lies on that island."
Bernadette did not elaborate. Instead, she shifted to the subject of Potion ingredients.
"But how can