Why Did the Host of the Banquet Die

While continuing to dance with Sasha, Iver kept a distant eye on Cain and Andrea Walter as they danced beneath the Pure White Candle.

"Andrea... That Child of the Moon—what exactly is she thinking?"

Iver furrowed his brows slightly as he pondered.

At first glance, she looked like an ardent girl chasing after a celebrity.

Having finally gotten the chance to meet the Blood Angel's true incarnation from his Previous Life in the Material Realm, she had eagerly thrown herself at him.

...But on closer inspection, something still felt off.

Judging from the gossip he had heard in the Preparation Room, Andrea was the "daughter" of the Red Phase and one of his most beloved lovers. She adored Pengbo Naqi so much that she had willingly become the Child of the Moon, even falling out with her biological father, Master Walter, over it.

After becoming the Child of the Moon, she had become completely devoted to Pengbo Naqi. Even after Pengbo Naqi's death, she—who could never win an argument—had been willing to offend the other Ascenders and desperately attack those people in the Preparation Room, despite having no chance of out-arguing them.

If "Succubus" Emma and the Earl Leipzig had more or less possessed their own little schemes, Andrea had been utterly loyal to Pengbo Naqi. The sincerity of that fervor had even surpassed that of Alphons, Pengbo Naqi's actual biological son.

Although Aleister was not very diligent about synchronizing intelligence through the clouds, Iver, sleeping far away in the Theocracy, still knew the information he needed to know—Pengbo Naqi had been an extremely devout follower of the Host of the Banquet.

He had looked down on the Children of the Moon in the Narcissus Principality and the Iris Flower Kingdom.

He believed that those Children of the Moon who