Sassen Street, South District, Hope City.
The instant Angel and "Consul" Goredolf disappeared, Klein realized what had happened.
Earlier, he had used the Luck Stealer charm to swap the fates of the Worm of Time attempting to parasitize Angel and Amon's avatar. It had merely been an instinctive move born of their coordination in battle. After all, a target practically pressed against Angel was easier to deal with than one protected by the laws.
As for what Angel intended to do, he only fully understood now.
She had used a Yesterday Once More charm to restore her identity as an "outsider" from when she had first arrived two days earlier, then used the Mirror World to take Amon's avatar, the consul, outside the city. This triggered the prohibition against residents leaving, yet that conflicted with the law protecting the consul...
Furthermore, Goredolf's invitation for Anne to replace him as consul showed that the title could not be relinquished at will. A lawful handover was required for a replacement, but leaving the city would undoubtedly mean automatically abandoning one's current identity. That created another pair of conflicting laws.
As he pondered this, Klein noticed that the golden ribbons which had been restraining him, preparing to punish him for attacking the "Consul," had vanished without him realizing.
The Hand of Order coiled around Anne's slender figure above the street, contending with the power of order she commanded, had also fallen silent.
Apart from Nemo's completely destroyed home and the nearby ground affected by Petrification, the entire street was now so quiet that a falling pin could have been heard.
A little farther away, however, quite a few residents of Dream City were already peeking out of their homes, looking this way with more curiosity than fear.
Most of them had obeyed the