Angel's story had been wholly recreated by working backward from a known outcome, piecing together a relatively plausible chain of logic. If one truly wanted to pick holes in it, there would certainly still be flaws, because human thought branched in many directions, and trying to sort order from chaos in time was rather difficult.
However, if those deeper issues were set aside and one looked only at the surface and underlying layers, Angel's deduction held up.
Moreover, the final result was even better than Angel had imagined.
Not only did Xixia believe Angel, she had also filled in some details herself, revealing the secret history between Margaret and the Wise Sovereign... And Xixia's own conjectures were very likely true.
This also corroborated Angel's guess. The Wise Sovereign certainly knew about Margaret and Augustine. It might even have been the one pulling strings behind the scenes, helping them meet in secret.
Even Dodolo's inspiration—"the wise are not foolish"—pointed toward this Sovereign.
Thus, it could basically be confirmed that the Sovereign knew of that wall's existence and knew it was a hidden place Augustine had left behind. Whether the Sovereign had ever entered it, however, was harder to say.
Angel was inclined to believe the Sovereign had not entered either. Forging the key might not have been difficult for it, but that alchemical anomaly would not have been easy to overcome.
Still, even if the Sovereign truly had entered, Angel did not care. He appeared to be exploring the wall in the waking world, but his real target was the wall in the Nightmare Realm.
Yet now the matter had circled back to its starting point. Even knowing that the Sovereign was the key and held many secrets, how could they make it speak? That remained an unsolved problem.
After pondering