Holding a rolled-up newspaper, Sifa made a show of studying the passengers emerging from the carriages. In truth, his thoughts had already drifted far away.
He idly watched face after face, openly slacking off, when his spiritual intuition suddenly stirred. He did not immediately look toward its source.
Matches struck by nearby passengers, glowing cigarettes-everything connected to fire became Sifa's "eyes."
This was Flame Vision, an ability that came with the deepening of his flame powers after he became a Conqueror.
Through Flame Vision, Sifa "saw" a figure.
It was a woman.
She was tall, dressed in a long black dress, with a black hat and matching gloves.
Behind the hat's black veil, Sifa saw lustrous pale-blond hair and emerald-green eyes.
He knew this woman.
To be precise, she was an Angel.
Catherine, the Black Saint of the Demoness Sect!
She had actually arrived by steam train!
That caught Sifa somewhat off guard.
Presumably, she had chosen such an inconspicuous way to travel to avoid alerting Trier's official Beyonders.
Just then.
Through Flame Vision, Sifa saw that Arnold had approached Catherine. A moment later, the Pyromaniac spotted her.
The instant their eyes met, Arnold's pupils began to dilate. Although he did not recognize Catherine, he had undoubtedly sensed that she was no ordinary woman.
At that moment, Arnold stiffened, then began coughing violently.
The nearby passengers instinctively moved away, afraid of catching something like pneumonia.
In fact.
Arnold had indeed contracted pneumonia, and he had only just contracted it.
The instant he fell ill, the disease progressed to its most severe stage.
Arnold coughed incessantly and burned with fever. Before long, he could no longer stand and fell to the ground, writhing in agony.
Within mere seconds, Arnold stopped breathing. His eyes remained wide open, as though he could not