Sign! You Have to Sign Even If You Don't Want To!

At that very moment, elsewhere.

Iver sent Aleister an "OK" in reply.

Aleister also sent back a "1."

Aleister looked at the mirror and answered cheerfully, "All set. Everything has been arranged here. Within an hour, a bishop-level priest will come here to personally preside over the funeral and lay his soul to rest. If you don't want to be discovered as a demon and have the bishop risk her life to exorcise you, you'd better leave in advance."

"...I've seen her. That's Bishop Mia Muller, right?"

The Mirror Demon replied, "I just saw her suddenly get out of bed and turn on the light in her room."

His deep voice was filled with praise. "You are truly magnificent, far beyond anything I could have imagined. You can actually order around a bishop... Those devotees are all tough nuts to crack. Even my former master—and even the Earl Leipzig—would have had a hard time bribing them."

"Is that so?"

Aleister merely chuckled. "I don't think so."

Unlike the Mirror Demon, Aleister believed devotees were the easiest to bribe. Devotees all possessed a strong spirit of "selflessness," so their vigilance was often weaker. Many devotees, or ordinary people with an affinity for the Dedication Path, were easily deceived for precisely this reason...

The difference was that an awakened devotee... definitely couldn't be bribed with "wealth" or "fame." Money only benefited the person himself, which was precisely what a devotee needed to cast aside.

"To bribe a devotee, all you need to do is offer them glory and honor."

Aleister said, "Tell them that you will sincerely turn toward goodness because of their great deed; promise them that all the proceeds from this operation will be donated to a certain group, and explain how much that will improve their lives; or prove