Angel had never truly interacted with Edessak. She had only seen him from afar while attending balls and speaking with Trissy—the young man who always appeared beside Trissy and cherished her so dearly. She knew he was the King's fifth child, third in line to the throne, and, as was customary, held an Earl's title and lands, yet received little attention.
Only after learning that Trissy had been controlled by "0-08" and the Primordial Demoness's Sapphire Ring, involuntarily becoming the Prince's mistress before they were separated by the exposure of the Great Smog incident, did Angel notice the role this Prince had played in the whole affair—a scapegoat.
Wasn't a royal who ranked high in the legal line of succession but was otherwise neglected the perfect person to end his life by "committing suicide out of guilt," conveniently giving the Three Great Churches an explanation?
Thus, when Georgina mentioned his name and said he was still alive, Angel's first reaction was disbelief.
Could she be trying to save her life with a lie we can't verify in Dream City... But if that were all she wanted, she could simply pretend she didn't know Qonas Kilgor or George III's plans. She could remain hostile to us without posing much of a threat, wait for us to unravel this city's laws, and hitch a ride out just as she did on the way in... No, she shouldn't have followed us in at all. With Anne, an Angel of the Arbiter pathway, here, Georgina couldn't possibly gain any advantage, even if she carried a Grade 0 Sealed Artifact belonging to the royal family...
Could Georgina really have risked following us into the Ghost Empire to draw Anne, Klein, and me into her faction and stop George III?
Questions surfaced one after another from