"Hmph, how are you going to explain this?"
As soon as the other members left, Angel leaned back against her high-backed chair, folded her arms, and crossed one leg over the other knee, giving Klein, the Fool, a stern look.
Naturally, she was referring to the fact that the Earth Mother was Lilith.
"I was still trying to figure out how to get you out of that awkward situation. I never expected you already knew."
Feeling that she sounded a little too aggressive, she added that remark.
Under Angel's gaze, Klein smiled somewhat awkwardly. First, he dispersed the gray fog around him, then raised his hand and snapped his fingers, concealing the towering palace, bronze table, and all the chairs. The two of them now sat in a rather small but warmly furnished living room. Angel occupied a familiar armchair, while Klein sat opposite her. Between them stood a small coffee table with two cups of steaming coffee.
This was the Moretti family's home at 2 Daffodil Street in Tingen City, a place Angel had often visited while working at the Blackthorn Security Company.
Although she knew it was all an illusion Klein had created using Sefirah Castle's power, Angel still relaxed against the armchair, and the last trace of resentment she felt toward him vanished.
More accurately, she had never truly been angry in the first place. Most of it had been an act. These very human behaviors of Klein's were precisely what she hoped to see.
Having advanced to an angel before Klein, she knew that even with enough anchors, resisting the mental imprint within Beyonder characteristics and the divinity constantly eroding one's humanity was exceedingly difficult.
On the one hand, she occasionally joined battles in the war between Loen and the other countries, fighting other angels or