Angel Gray was somewhat puzzled. If Orville really was, as she suspected, the Marionette City Zarathus had used to advance to Mystic Seer, why was there no record of it in official documents, or even within the Secret Order, an intelligence organization?
When Klein had built Yarnam City and brought it into the Physical World, he had wanted its corresponding region to appear in the Spirit World as quickly as possible. Thus, he had neither prevented the city from interacting with the outside world nor made its marionettes hide themselves away. During those few months of "display," ordinary people far outnumbering the marionettes had visited the city to sightsee and enjoy themselves. They included residents of the nearby New City of Silver and Hope City, travelers and ships passing through the Berserk Sea, and intelligence agents from many countries.
After numerous travelogues were published and reports landed on the desks of official agencies, Yarnam City was no longer a secret.
Yet Orville seemed to exist only in the minds of the Church of Steam's upper echelons.
One possibility was that the city itself was a secret location the authorities were reluctant to mention—a City of Exile like Molora, for example, cut off from the world and guarding certain secrets. Zarathus had then made use of it, replacing its inhabitants with marionettes, or simply turning them into marionettes. Based on Klein's deductions and Zarathus's personality, the latter was quite likely...
Another possibility was that, after Zarathus used the Antigonus Family Notebook to steal the unaccommodated Mystic Seer characteristic from the depths of Mist Town, the God of Steam had welcomed his advancement to Sequence 1. He might even have hoped Zarathus would become the Fool and then the Lord of Mysteries as soon as possible, removing the seal on the Western