The City of Silver's Sealed Artifacts were stored deep beneath the domed tower, one of the Twin Towers where the Council of Six lived.
Angel followed the elder Luvia Tiffany, who wore black robes and had slightly curly silver-gray hair, down the winding stairs from her temporary room toward the underground levels.
She had not asked Klein to accompany her. Although the City of Silver probably would not have refused such a request, Angel worried that a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact might affect a Scholar of Yore who did not possess complete divinity.
In any case, she would share everything she learned with him. Besides, the City of Silver's two Sealed Artifacts could only be viewed, not touched. Even if Klein came along, he would have no chance to touch them and summon their projections from the History Void for use.
As these thoughts ran through her mind, Angel noticed faint sobbing coming from behind a door beside the winding staircase they were passing. It sounded like a young girl, her voice filled with despair, fear, and endless sorrow.
Her steps faltered, but she continued after Lovia, deciding not to meddle on someone else's turf.
Yet even that slight reaction did not escape the Black Knight leading the way, who looked nothing like a knight. She turned back, glanced at Angel with her pale-gray eyes, and suddenly said:
"That is... the only way to prevent the people of the City of Silver from becoming evil spirits."
Evil spirits... the curse that turns people into evil spirits after death unless a blood relative within three generations ends their life?
Angel immediately recalled the history of the City of Silver that "The Sun," Derrick, had recounted at the Tarot Club. Lowering her voice, she asked:
"The Kinslaying Curse?"
Lovia nodded, an inevitable