Miss Magician had already become an angel?
Over the past year or so, she-no, She-had traveled the cosmos to seek an opportunity to become a complete mythical creature, to fulfill the requirements of her promotion ritual?
Sitting opposite her, the Hanged Man, a veteran of the Tarot Club, looked momentarily stunned.
When she had publicly asked Miss Empress for leave and temporarily withdrawn from the Tarot Club, Alger had already learned that this member, who had been only Sequence 9 when she joined and had never been particularly enthusiastic about advancing, had reached Sequence 3. She had become a Wanderer, capable of leaving this planet and traveling into the depths of the cosmos.
But Alger had not been particularly envious then. He himself was a Sequence 3 Sea King, and by acting as Pope of the Church of the Sea God day after day, secretly stirring up wind and waves around the Rorsted Archipelago to alter the sea conditions, he was rapidly digesting his potion. Once his preparations were complete, he would have the opportunity to advance to Sequence 2 and become a Calamity, Wisdom Angel, or Profane Presbyter. Miss Empress of the Tarot Club possessed the corresponding Beyonder characteristics and potion formulas for all three.
He simply had not expected that, after only a little over a year, while every other Tarot Club member was still working hard at Sequence 3, the long-absent Magician would become a true angel and overtake them all... excluding, of course, the two current great existences, the World and the Empress... Having already suffered considerable blows from those two members' rapid advancement, Alger soon recovered. He discreetly glanced at the other members and quickly noticed that Justice and Judgment were not as surprised as he and the others were. The former made a perfunctory