Mist Town

"...On Monday morning, I took the form of an internal Guardian as planned. With the help of Senior, the Wraith eroded by the power of Evernight, I fooled the core seal of Chanis Gate and entered the second level where the notebook was stored. I found the Antigonus Family Notebook, which had no additional safeguards.

"But just as I was about to take it and leave by Teleportation, the angel from the Goddess Church appeared. She was the one who saved me during the Great Smog and erased Mr. A of the Aurora Order—a beautiful woman in a hood, her face devoid of expression."

Dressed in casual clothes and sitting at ease beside the balcony, Klein slowly recounted the perilous moment three days earlier when he had infiltrated Chanis Gate.

Of course, judging by the clues he had deliberately left behind, the Church should have turned its suspicions toward Gehrman Sparrow, the Mad Adventurer who roamed the seas with an unknown identity and no regard for consequences, rather than Dwayne Dantès. Otherwise, he would hardly have dared sit here telling the story. He would have packed his valuables and fled overnight.

"She also killed Panacea, Lady Despair, who was behind the Great Smog... It seems she's the Church's, hmm, Guardian Angel stationed in Backlund. That's what they call angels in Intis, at least, like Bornova Gustav, Emperor Roselle's second son, whom I met."

Angel sat opposite Klein with her right leg crossed over her left knee. Her soft silk nightgown had slipped to the top of her thigh, but she paid no attention to the suggestive pose. Instead, she spoke with a thoughtful look.

"Bornova... I never expected both of the Emperor's younger children to become such important figures in the world of mysticism. I wonder what happened to his