In the divination dream, Klein saw a dense red shroud hanging over the emperor's head. That redness was faintly connected to the emperor's spirituality. Then the emperor began to look exhausted and rapidly aged.
Was this patch of red the true culprit...?
Klein tried to draw his perspective closer to make out the true nature of that mass of red.
It was-
"Boom!"
Flames suddenly surged from the depths of the crimson, quickly filling the entire world. They were a deep purple tinged with blue.
"Ugh!"
Klein woke from the dream and opened his eyes to see great masses of bluish-purple flames blazing over his body. The flames brought an intense burning sensation that assailed his mind.
"...Hmm? It doesn't seem to hurt that much?"
He muttered to himself, sitting calmly in his chair as he waited for the gray fog to suppress the flames and gradually extinguish them.
Klein had already made many attempts at "courting death." He had divined the blood of the Eternal Blazing Sun and a murmuring ear suspected to be connected to the True Creator. Of course, the most dangerous of all had been that tide of Luther's.
Compared to those beings, the pain brought by this patch of red was far from unbearable. It could even be considered negligible. "Clearly not a true god... probably not even Sequence 1... a Sequence 2 angel?"
Klein reached a rough conclusion by ranking the pain. Beyond that, the redness and the bluish-purple flames it produced gave him an ominous feeling.
Could it be... an angel of the Hunter Pathway?
Feysac's royal family, the Einhorn Family, follows the Hunter Pathway... and there's that invisible connection between them... could their family's angel have secretly done something to the emperor, like absorbing his lifespan?
But why would they do that...?