Hobart's first thought was: Even someone as powerful as Amon needed to use humanity to resist divinity! Amon had been born with Uniqueness, so theoretically, the divinity within Him had to outweigh His humanity.
Perhaps that was precisely why He needed humanity even more to maintain balance.
Hobart even wondered whether Amon's love of pranks was His attempt to display His human side.
Pranks alone might not have been enough. Even if He had not been born with emotions, He should have "deceived" Himself into developing some, stirring His own feelings and making His spirituality more lively.
Only then did Hobart consider whether he should hunt Amon's avatar.
Hobart's first instinct was to stay out of it. He was currently preparing to take in Jonathan and the others from the Gnostic Society to strengthen his own forces. He had no time to provoke Amon.
The key was that this matter was difficult to control. Given Amon's arrangements for His avatars, He would sooner or later discover who had hunted one down.
Encountering a Sequence 3 or Sequence 4 avatar would be one thing, but if a Sequence 2 avatar came after him... Just thinking about it was terrifying.
Hobart guessed that the Amon avatar at Tony Manor was probably Sequence 2. When he had previously covered Klein's escape from Bayam, he had sensed a gaze coming from the city.
Thinking about it now, the owner of that gaze had seemed to possess the level of an angel.
Thus, Hobart leaned toward rescuing Lafite and then leaving Bayam with him.
But then Hobart realized another problem: the Messenger seemed overly enthusiastic about hunting Amon.
In Hobart's impression, the Messenger had always remained detached from worldly affairs. More importantly, she had not asked for doughnuts this time, which left him uneasy.
Then