Seeing Helene raise her head like a rooster and look at them, Katarina, the White Saint, was the first to laugh. Her innocent expression carried a hint of allure, leaving even Helene, a fellow Unaging Demoness, momentarily spellbound.
Only then did she realize that she had just advanced to Sequence 3, while the other woman had spent over a thousand years at this Sequence. Even without actively acting, Katarina would naturally have finished digesting her potion, and her control over her Beyonder powers far surpassed Helene's.
—From Angelica, Helene already knew that acting as an Unaging required the passage of long years, and Katarina was a High Sequence Witch from the Fourth Epoch!
Besides her, Black Cat Wensa, whose black fur gleamed and whose eyes shone like sapphires, also gave Helene an overwhelming sense of danger. This convinced Helene that she, too, was a High Sequence Witch, most likely also at Sequence 3.
She had never sensed this when she was still a Hunter, or even when she had been a Despair Demoness. Clearly, spirit world creatures possessed some innate ability to interfere with spiritual warnings.
One thought after another flashed through Helene's mind. In the end, she took a deep breath, put on what she considered a friendly smile, and looked at Tracy.
"I thought you would have slipped away after I gave you the chance."
After the battle against the Demoness Sect ended, the angels who had come to help departed one after another. Anne and Goredolf had no time to spare for the hostage being held in the church either. Unable to contact Miss Angelica, Helene had simply relaxed her vigilance on purpose, hoping Tracy would have a chance to leave. Instead, Tracy had not only returned on her own, but brought along her mother, Katarina, and