Did [Temperance] Have Ties to the Church of Evernight?

Inside the Odora Family's residence, home to a family of vampires.

Emlyn sat on the sofa in the living room, waiting, with a wooden box at his feet. His face held both anticipation and nervousness.

Before long, the person he had come to see appeared.

"Good evening, Your Excellency."

Emlyn rose and greeted Cosmi Odora as he walked in.

He looked like a middle-aged gentleman, but he was actually over two hundred years old. Although he himself was only a Sanguine Baron, equivalent to a Sequence 6 Potions Professor, his family had a deep heritage. An elder from the Fourth Epoch was still alive.

That was precisely why their family was qualified to organize this event.

"Mm."

Upon seeing Emlyn, Cosmi was about to speak when he suddenly frowned. Then his nostrils flared slightly, and he looked toward the box at Emlyn's feet as though he had caught a scent.

"Fresh blood..."

As a Sanguine, Cosmi was naturally very sensitive to the scent of blood. After a moment of confusion, he seemed to realize something. He looked up at Emlyn. "You hunted down one of the targets?"

"Ahem..."

At those words, Emlyn couldn't help the corners of his mouth lifting. Still, he barely suppressed his smile and spoke in a very casual tone. "Yes."

He bent down and lifted the lid of the wooden box, exposing its contents to the air. Several layers of old newspaper lined the bottom, soaking up the blood that had seeped out. Two things rested on top of them: a bloodstained human head and a strange object resembling a translucent heart.

The head of a believer in the Primordial Moon, and the characteristic that had emerged from his body!

"This..."

Cosmi was astonished, but the believer's head matched the description, and the corresponding Beyonder characteristic