It had been less than twenty seconds, and Pales Zoroaster, a Sequence 1 just like Amon's true body, who had recently recovered most of his strength, had just... died?
Watching Pinster Street through a prayer light on the Grey Mist, Klein was dumbfounded. He suspected that what he saw was merely an illusion Amon had created as a prank, and that he was actually still battling Pallez for the right to become Sequence 0 of the Marauder Pathway.
But his spiritual intuition, enhanced by Sefirah Castle, told him that the figure standing in the Corpse Cathedral, which he had seen once during Adam and Ouroboros's battle, was indeed Amon's true body. What he held aloft was the Beyonder characteristic that had originally belonged to Pallez.
From the information in Leonard's brief, anxious prayer and the scene he had witnessed after "arriving," Klein could already work backward from the outcome to reconstruct the rough course of the battle:
Before Leonard returned home, Amon had used his arrangements in the Jacob Family Treasure to pinpoint Pallez's avatar, which had stolen the fate Trojan Horse characteristic. Without the slightest delay, he had risked entering Backlund. By peering into fate and predicting Pallez and Leonard's movements, he had arrived at 7 Pinster Street ahead of them and waited for his prey to walk into the trap.
The instant Pallez discovered Amon, he had ended his parasitism and left Leonard's body. As the Corpse Cathedral sealed off reality, the Spirit World, and the Astral World, he had pushed Leonard out of the sealed area, while remaining behind to confront Amon and meet his fate.
One side was a King of Angel who had planned this for a long time and possessed an overwhelming advantage in strength. The other had yet to recover his full strength