"...Next, I'll leave matters in Tingen to you."
Adam, with his golden hair and beard, spoke slowly, his tone gentle, as though addressing an old friend.
The black-haired woman beside him nodded slightly and answered:
"'Sefirah Castle' will overlook this alteration to her memories, but only this once. Unless absolutely necessary, don't contact her again."
"I understand." Adam chuckled, yet his eyes remained utterly calm, devoid of amusement. "Then let this story begin."
He delivered the last sentence in a singsong cadence, and his figure faded away, vanishing from the basement as though he had never been there.
The Mother of the Sky withdrew her gaze and took one last look at the young woman on the floor. Her black-robed silhouette disappeared as though rubbed out with an eraser.
This was not Angel's first time seeing the basement where her "transmigration" had begun from a third-person perspective. She had seen these two figures, a man and a woman, when she had taken a potion to advance and nearly lost control, and when Adam had "awakened" her memories. She had long known Adam's identity, but only now had she truly seen the woman's face clearly and confirmed who she was.
According to her and Klein's conjecture, the Mother of the Sky, who could move freely in the outside world, was effectively the Evernight Goddess... This meant that Adam had indeed cooperated with the Goddess to some extent, and had even altered Angel's memories!
*So that was why I so easily came into contact with the Goddess Church after "transmigrating," and why my faith became firm through prayer... That was why the Nighthawks were almost completely unguarded around me, and why I was granted the title of "Goddess Shadow" when I had only just arrived in this world... That was why, after