Anna Kingsford.
Also known as "Miss Sprengel" and "Anna Sprengel."
She was a witch who had survived from the Imperial era to the present day, as well as a descendant of the world's first Demon Scholar, "Jean de Fontanel."
Most people did not know why she had two completely different surnames, and she had never explained it herself. Some believed that one of the surnames came from her fiancé, while others argued that this was impossible, because she was also the Queen of Valentine I, the founder of the Stibium Kingdom.
What surname could be more sacred than "Valentine"?
Only a few people knew why she had become a witch—
Before the "Rose Grimoire" was discovered and obtained by Stibium's Demon Scholars, being a Demon Scholar had always been dangerous. When a Demon Scholar ascended into a Demon Avatar, their fragile fleshly body simply could not control the powerful demon within.
Some believed that this danger had caused the Empire to split apart and collapse, because the demons' power had corrupted those Demon Scholars, making them do things they otherwise never could have done.
It was only after Stibium's Demon Scholars obtained the "Rose Grimoire" that they were able to use the "Rose Covenant" to forcibly control, suppress, and put the immensely powerful demons within them to sleep.
—and the one who had brought the "Rose Grimoire" was "Miss Sprengel."
If the Red Arcana represented the Child of the Moon, the Black Arcana represented the necromancer, and Valentine I represented the alchemist... then as the representative of the Demon Scholars, Miss Sprengel's status was likewise incredibly exalted.
She simply had always favored secrecy. Even the position of Queen could not bind her, as though she were not subject to any laws or contracts of the Human World. Miss Sprengel would