Elsewhere, at the Cavern Arena.
At Tree Elder's earnest request, Black Earl followed him to handle the aftermath of the confinement array.
Meanwhile, Angel and the others prepared to return to Starry District first.
A small incident occurred as they were leaving. The Bilos Family's vice patriarch, "Purple Flame" Gai Nuo, blocked their path.
Although Gai Nuo did not say anything excessive, his implication was that he hoped they would stay and cooperate with the investigation.
This was not actually Gai Nuo's own intention, but something Moon Elder and Yaji had pushed from behind the scenes.
Moon Elder had only recently awakened and did not yet know what had happened afterward. But she knew that when Witch Sharon had controlled Paradise Game, Angel and Dox had entered this place under very unusual identities, which was highly abnormal. Yaji had made an even deeper discovery: Angel and the others had been unusual within Paradise Game, to the point that even Witch Sharon had been unable to control them... Previously, Yaji had not known the reason, but after learning from Tree Elder of the existence of the "power of contracts," he immediately concluded that all participants in Paradise Game had been affected by contracts, while Angel and Dox alone had remained outside them.
Thus, they were exceedingly curious about Angel and Dox... and suspicious of them.
After all, in a normal person's mind, only someone connected to the attackers would know of the power of contracts.
Even though Angel and the others had fought the attackers tooth and nail afterward, Witch Sharon had not suffered any substantive harm. In Moon Elder's judgment, this might well have been a show deliberately staged between "companions," a case of holding back.
However, Gai Nuo knew that Dox had previously emerged from the Underground Waterway alongside