As Hill had expected, the greatest significance of this battle was in seriously wounding Delifus rather than killing him outright.
That Combat Angel's goal had merely been to prevent Delifus from being killed just days after leaving Sia Tower... especially when those bones had clearly come from Sia Tower itself.
Their goal was to test whether Delifus himself had a problem, or whether he had simply been unlucky.
Rosero and Aislin's casual handling of the matter proved that both of them were well aware of it.
Otherwise, given Rosero's usual style, he would never have stayed so close to Delifus and fought the enemy alongside him.
After all, he had an excellent excuse: protecting Aislin.
No matter how complicated Glasya and Aislin's relationship was, as long as Aislin was still Aislin, Rosero had to treat her with utmost respect.
The order of Devils had always been this strict.
No matter what happened behind the scenes, what they showed to the outside world had to be orderly and methodical.
And this battle, which seemed somewhat strange and merely delivered a great gift to Gilbert himself... Hill felt there was another possibility: it was bait meant to hook him.
It seemed Sia Tower had begun to harbor some suspicions about Hilbert, who was even stronger than they had imagined.
But they were unwilling to directly make a move against Gilbert as they had in the past.
At this point, with Lathander already involved, and with any problem Gilbert had necessarily being related to the River Styx... while the Devils clearly understood what the people of this world could not... they absolutely did not want to confront an envoy of the River Styx directly.
Moreover, Black Mystery Tower had now entered Sia Tower's records. Even if the Lord of Hell had abandoned some