After using his marionette to finish praying to the Sea God, Klein sat in his home with his neck slightly hunched, waiting for the "punishment" to descend.
Worshiping an evil god was a serious crime. Even a first warning would very likely involve Saint-level Mental Piercing, leaving him in excruciating pain.
But nothing happened even after a minute. Only then did he cautiously relax and let out a long breath.
His guess had been right. Reciting the honorific name that had once belonged to the Sea God but now pointed to him did not count as worshiping an evil god!
Having established this, Klein carefully set up a Wall of Spirituality, just as he would in the Physical World, before taking four steps counterclockwise. He entered the space above the gray fog and sat in the high-backed chair belonging to the evil god known as the Fool and the Sea God.
Only then did he confirm that not even a Hand of Order could prevent him from entering the Grey Fog Space. Deep within, he felt a small thrill at having begun to break free of the shackles of the "law."
Since arriving in this world... no, this era, he had only once truly lost all contact with the gray fog and the Spirit World. That had been in Mist Town, a world created by the Evernight Goddess through her authority over concealment, no different from a divine kingdom on earth.
And a Sequence 1 characteristic, with powers roughly equivalent to "0-08," could not suppress the mysterious gray fog, even within a city already under the complete control of its laws!
*If I can get here, we have a way to leave Dream City. At worst, I can bestow everyone's blood and The Travels of Grosell on a Tarot Club