After the Fool had spoken and then used the World to respond, the Tarot Club entered its final free discussion session.
Several gazes fell on him. Cyril fell silent for a moment, then said carefully:
"Based on some information I've obtained and my own deductions, the Aurora Order's Angel of Fate, Ouroboros, may come to Backlund sometime soon."
"He was one of the eight Kings of Angel who once followed the Ancient Sun God. After the Ancient Sun God fell, he chose to follow the True Creator."
Hanged Man: "King of Angel?"
Audrey: "Ouroboros?"
Fors: "He's coming to Backlund!"
World: ...
Even the Sun, Derrick, who usually paid little attention to the outside world, turned his head slightly, a look of seriousness and surprise on his face.
Cyril watched them all turn their heads in unison, their words connecting and their voices growing more emphatic. For the first time, he felt they were remarkably in sync.
After a brief pause, seeing that no one had any further questions, he explained in turn:
"In the Third Epoch, King of Angel referred specifically to the eight most powerful Angels who followed the Ancient Sun God. Later,
the term King of Angel came to refer generally to those Angels who had surpassed Sequence 1 but had yet to become gods."
"Ouroboros is both the former and the latter. He came here in pursuit of an anomaly in Fate."
He paused, then thought of the urgency Will Auceptin had shown earlier and speculated:
"Actually, I suspect he's already in Backlund."
The Fool, Klein, almost instinctively glanced toward a corner of the hall shrouded in gray fog. There lay the corpse of a boy around ten years old that Cyril had sent up through a ritual.
He had performed a divination on the corpse at