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"Kiyoin?"
Noah looked at Ena in considerable surprise.
"Kiyoin? Do you mean that Kiyoin?"
In Japan's world of sorcery, there were four leading families.
They were the Kiyoin Family, the Kuzuhara Family, the Renjo Family, and the Sayamiya Family.
Since ancient times, these four families had been the four great old lineages serving the Emperor, with exceptionally long histories and noble origins.
At present, the beings standing at the very top of Japan's entire sorcery world were these four great families.
Among them, the Sayamiya Family was the core of the Orthodoxy Compilation Committee.
The founder of the Orthodoxy Compilation Committee had once been the head of the Sayamiya Family.
The Kiyoin Family, meanwhile, was a lineage particularly renowned for its military and political influence.
In the past, the four great families had fought one another for fame and profit. In the end, the Sayamiya Family emerged victorious.
Thus, the reason the Orthodoxy Compilation Committee, which held absolute sway over Japan's sorcery world, had the Sayamiya Family at its core was not only because that faction had been founded by the Sayamiya Family; this factor played a part as well.
For that reason, the Sayamiya Family—in other words, the Orthodoxy Compilation Committee—had the authority to deploy members of the other three families.
Even so, the Kiyoin Family's political influence was equally formidable. Though they accepted the Orthodoxy Compilation Committee's orders, they remained among the best in Japan's sorcery world, and even the Sayamiya Family, the core of the Committee,