Yet to Honey Badger, who stood to the side, all of this was even more unbelievable--
Because Honey Badger had participated in the entire incident from start to finish.
When Honey Badger investigated through Hawkeye's information channels and learned that the only Fifth Level Transcendent in all of Leipzig was currently Earl Dawn... she had actually felt a momentary urge to retreat.
It was not that she thought she could not defeat Earl Dawn--even without Aleister, Honey Badger was confident in her ability to assassinate any Fifth Level Transcendent without precognition in a one-on-one fight. What she feared was the demon inside Earl Dawn.
Hawkeye had collected information on Earl Dawn a long time ago while operating in Star Antimony.
His reputation among the Demon Scholars--that is, within the "Rosy Cross" Society--was fairly good.
He often spent time with some young people far weaker than himself and had no airs about him. He was also generous and mild-tempered... In the eyes of the Demon Scholars, Earl Dawn was a reliable and kind older brother.
At the same time, however, the Children of the Moon were extremely wary of him.
The reason was that the Demon Avatar hatched within him was called the "Winter Demon."
Hawkeye did not know much about its specific abilities. After all, knowledge of demons at this level was extremely difficult to obtain. They had not even finished studying the Shadow Demon, let alone a demon completely unrelated to the Path of Adaptation.
What they could confirm was that the Winter Demon's power strongly countered the Children of the Moon, who possessed vigorous vitality.
However, he was extremely low-key and had never used the Winter Demon's power to kill a Child of the Moon. The Children of the Moon were also wary of his power and did