Just as the five members of the group went their separate ways to begin a brand-new day, Iluna, yawning in the morning light, arrived with her own team near the warehouses of Tobesk West District, beneath a sky thick with unnatural black clouds.
The Church had naturally noticed the abnormal phenomenon in the sky last night. Combined with reconnaissance reports suggesting that an Angel Level Relic had appeared in the city, even Iluna's fully staffed team was only assigned basic investigative work—disguising themselves as police officers and questioning nearby residents about last night's events. The ones truly handling matters in the core area were Twelfth Ring Warlocks and two Thirteenth Ring Warlocks.
But not long after her team's investigation began, Iluna was summoned away and brought into the now-empty warehouse.
If Shade were still here, he would surely have been surprised that the warehouse had not yet collapsed despite losing such a large section of its load-bearing wall.
"This is really serious."
Looking at the streetscape near the warehouse, as though it had been erased by a giant rubber eraser, the seventeen-year-old girl sighed softly. She looked around as she walked, not feeling that this place was especially dangerous at all, because she knew it was related to Shade's group's actions last night.
This Warehouse District was closest to the Church of Creation and Destruction's cathedral, so Mr. Sari Pirot, the Creation Church's Thirteenth Ring Warlock known as "Iron Right Hand," was overseeing this investigation. As for why a Sun Church team was conducting inquiries in the outskirts during an investigation led by the Mechanical Church, it was because an Angel Level Relic was involved. By regulation, no single Church could investigate such a matter independently.
"Good morning, Miss Bayes! Over here!"
Mr. Pirot was a tall, easygoing-looking middle-aged man,