He—no, He was Antigonus, the King of Angel of the Seer pathway, known as the Half Fool?
How did he find this place? Did he know Klein and I were the ones who stole his Mystic Seer Beyonder characteristic? We hadn't shown our real faces, and we'd taken anti-divination measures afterward... Angel's thoughts raced. Her right hand curled around empty air, and an iron-black flagpole, as though stained with blood, flickered into view. An aura that made people tremble and want to kneel in worship instantly filled the entire church.
Angel had no idea how Antigonus had escaped the Evernight Goddess's concealment, nor whether he could accommodate or use that Uniqueness again at Sequence 2. But that wouldn't stop her from clubbing him over his dog's head—no, his wolf's head—under the gaze of the Goddess's sacred emblem hanging high above.
Sensing a trace of hostility, Antigonus gave her a warm smile. He wore the lightweight black trench coat commonly seen on Nighthawks, and his youthful face and half-gray hair gave him an air of both youthful vitality and decrepitude. In slightly accented Loenese, he said:
"I came from the Holy Cathedral. Arianna told me to find you directly and offer assistance with your mission on the Southern Continent. You may call me..."
"Antigonus."
Angel finished for him, her brows still tightly knitted. She couldn't tell whether he was telling the truth.
She knew all too well how good Seers were at acting. Not only was she constantly watching for any disturbance to her Spirit Body Threads, she was also worried that he might join forces with Amon to attack. After all, given how a Great Old One was constituted, Amon, who belonged to a pathway adjacent to Seer, only needed one Sequence 1 characteristic from the Seer pathway and its