Cunning and shameless... He must mean the "Celestial Worthy" who locked him inside this lamp—the "Lord of Mysteries," right?
The Genie's booming laughter still echoed in Angel's ears, rippling through the Gray Fog, but the golden figure before her had gone motionless, as though petrified.
She keenly sensed a trace of "fear" in this Outer Deity, who possessed the standing of a Great Old One but had been reduced to a wisp of consciousness.
The target of his fear was Klein—Klein, who wore the "curtain" that had been preserved in the Gray Fog for thousands of years before being expelled, accommodated the "Fool" card, and held the "Mystic Seer" characteristic belonging to Antigonus, the "Half Fool."
Since Klein was currently in Spirit Body form and had accommodated a Card of Blasphemy, he wore brightly colored clothes and an ornate diadem. His air was a contradiction of terror and absurdity, scarcely different from that of Sefirah Castle's former master. Even Angel dared not defy the "Fool" in this state above the Gray Fog.
The Genie has mistaken Klein for the Celestial Worthy... Understanding dawned on Angel. She remained silent, emptied her mind, and let her eyes lose focus, sitting in the high-backed chair as though she had been turned into a marionette.
This was much like her usual state at Tarot Club gatherings and required little acting skill. Besides, the Genie's attention was entirely fixed on the figure at the head of the long table. He never noticed that the corners of the mouth of the City of Calamity's blessed, whom he had just mocked, were threatening to curl upward.
Klein had reached the same conclusion. Although this was his first encounter with the legendary Son of Chaos's Earth-based portion, Angel had already told him how the Celestial Worthy had tricked