"----"
With Fang Li's words, the air across the entire rooftop seemed to have been filled with cement, becoming incomparably heavy.
Heavier than ever before.
And the source of that oppressive atmosphere was Stiyl and Kanzaki's gazes and expressions.
Their eyes and expressions had taken on a truly dangerous edge.
Stiyl in particular looked as though fire were burning in his eyes, as if he had heard something utterly unforgivable.
Then, Stiyl spoke.
"You want us to leave here?"
As though turning all the anger in his heart into a smile, Stiyl closed his eyes for a moment.
When he opened them again, his eyes burned with intense emotion and extreme sarcasm as he said this.
"You ignorant outsider, from what position are you telling us to stand down? And what right do you have to make us stand down?"
Few people would likely understand the feelings contained within those words.
But Fang Li was not one of them.
From the very beginning, Fang Li had known everything.
Including Stiyl and Kanzaki's identities.
Therefore, Fang Li only had this to say.
"Perhaps I have no standing to say such things, but you have more than enough reason to leave this place."
Fang Li looked at Stiyl and Kanzaki, his expression never changing from beginning to end.
"After all, you don't want to hurt Index either, do you?"
"Members of the Necessary Evil Church of English Puritanism's Zero Holy Ground."
"Stiyl Magnus."
"Kanzaki Kaori."
That was right.
Members of the Necessary Evil Church of English Puritanism's Zero Holy Ground.
Like Index, the two magicians before him both belonged to English Puritanism's Necessary Evil Church.
In other words, Stiyl and Kanzaki were not Index's enemies. They were her companions.
"You..." Stiyl was stunned.
"So that's it..." As though she had realized something,