Setting a mysticism trap, then approaching rapidly through the Spirit World... Angel immediately thought of an old friend: the Red Angel, Medici.
When George III's mausoleum collapsed, he had been affected by a Betrayal charm and parted ways with the evil spirits of the Einhorn and Sauron ancestors. Since then, he had vanished without a trace. Only when Helene followed Angel's orders to visit Molora in search of clues about Salinger's Blood Banner had she encountered Gusin, a member of the Iron and Blood Cross Order whom Medici had beguiled. Medici seemed to have bestowed some power upon him, allowing him to safely approach the corrupted banner, but he had ultimately died at the hands of the descended Primordial Demoness.
That encounter through a proxy had also allowed Angel to see through Medici's current condition. At most, he had recovered the strength of a Weather Warlock. Although he retained the status of a King of Angels, he could no longer be considered a dangerous opponent.
Even though he had once accommodated the Red Priest's Uniqueness and still had a connection to it that had not been completely severed, that Sealed Artifact had subsequently belonged to both the Blood Emperor Tudor and Death, Salinger. The connection was extremely faint.
In other words, even if he's the one coming, I'll only be facing a Sequence 2 Hunter angel, unless he uses another Yesterday Once More charm... Her thoughts racing, Angel simply stood where she was and waited for the visitor to arrive. The surrounding windows, decorative mirrors, and even the surfaces of the liquids in the cups grew deep and dark, as though linked by a single space.
The villa had become a Mirror Labyrinth. Every part of it existed in a state where reality and the Mirror World overlapped. The servants,