For now, they set aside the question of Angel's identity.
Ms. Gosha continued describing what had happened in the Hero Dungeon.
Angel wanted to move on to a private conversation and hear about the "person like him" Ms. Gosha had mentioned. But he had brought up the Hero Dungeon himself, so he listened patiently.
What happened next was much as Angel had expected.
Using the information she had gathered and Sole Intuition, Ms. Gosha quickly identified two unusual NPCs.
One was a chubby boy. The other was an old woman who lived outside town.
They were indeed the two NPCs Angel had thought were unusual.
The chubby boy was Valentine, the hero whom the Childlike Demon had dragged into its game prison. After failing to break out of the Cage for so long, his consciousness had sunk away, leaving him as Fatty, the boy in town who was terrible at games.
Only at night could Valentine regain a little awareness.
To the other townspeople, that return of awareness looked like Fatty having an episode. So every night, his house was locked up.
That was why the previous challengers had missed the clue entirely.
The old woman outside town was an unusual NPC too.
Before Valentine's mind had sunk completely, he had tried countless times to escape the game prison. After great difficulty, he learned a way out from a "senior" in town.
That "senior" was the old woman outside town.
Angel had spent some time observing her and noticed that she seemed to have a split personality.
The first time he watched her, she was brewing medicine in a huge vat inside her house. Gloomy and mysterious, she looked like a witch from a fairy tale.
The second time, she was a kindly grandmother. She did not even know she