"Oh?"
A clear smile appeared in Adam's eyes. Sastiel truly was the quickest of all his collaborators to blend into the Café.
"Go on."
Sastiel's deal was simple. He only needed Adam to bring them over to block Uroboros and the others. As for the remaining explanations, they could handle those themselves.
After all, they were currently trapped in a difficult yet fragile deadlock. To break the cycle, they only needed to open up one link, and the rest would naturally collapse.
"This is indeed no difficult matter for me, but it is very important to you."
Adam spoke after some thought:
"Since that is the case, then the price should be something important yet unimportant... I'll take the surplus Thief Pathway Extraordinary Characteristics in Amon's possession. Though they do not belong to you, I believe you can get them."
"Hm?"
Sastiel frowned slightly.
What did he mean by... surplus Thief Pathway Extraordinary Characteristics?
Taken literally, they were Extraordinary Characteristics that were not essential. The Extraordinary Characteristics an Extraordinary being possessed and required were usually one for every Sequence from Sequence Nine to their current Sequence.
As for unusual cases, where someone possessed surplus Extraordinary Characteristics, they were either like Captain Dunn, who swallowed his teammates' Extraordinary Characteristics so they could remain with him, or like Amon.
In Sastiel's view, this should refer to the other Sequence One Time Worm Extraordinary Characteristics that allowed Amon to become an Angel King, aside from the one needed to maintain Sequence One.
But... the key phrase "important yet unimportant," combined with some vaguely ominous information he had learned while gathering intelligence earlier...
"Fine, I agree."
Sastiel nodded.
Adam smiled in satisfaction. Amon had always used the powers of the Thief Pathway to parasitize and replace Extraordinary beings of the same Pathway, making use