Of the Kant Family, which had direct ties to Mrs. Shatara and George Kant, and the Delin Orr Restorationists, the former would certainly be seized directly by the Church's Religious Inquisition. The Kant Family would become history, just like the Bronte Family some time ago.
The latter, however, would likely only be investigated in secret by the Church rather than destroyed in a single blow.
The difference lay in the fact that the Kant Family had directly made a deal with a Demon. Those three-hundred-year-old antiques imbued with demonic power were proof, and Shade even suspected that Director Kant himself knew of the Demon's existence.
The latter, meanwhile, had not openly traded with the Demon. Though Mrs. Shatara was one of them, it had deliberately kept the group at a distance from itself.
Now that he thought about it, this had also been a safeguard left by the Demon, meant to prevent its carefully cultivated situation from being completely ruined if it were exposed.
In any case, less than eight hours after the Demon had been destroyed, Sir Wayne naturally had no idea what had happened to Mrs. Shatara. He was therefore still in the area and had not left.
When Shade called on him with the business card from yesterday's afternoon tea, the knight was still thinking about the "big deal" in Shade's hands. Grinning broadly, he led Shade and his "appraiser" companion to inspect his antiques.
"People don't have much cash on hand these days, but when it comes to antiques and precious metals, I certainly don't lack any."
He owned a private residence with a courtyard in the city, and all those antiques were kept in its basement, protected by a vault door made entirely of steel.
Compared to a storeroom, however, the space beyond the vault