The next morning, Sifa wrote Alfred a letter describing what he had discovered the previous night, then had his adjutant, O'Neill, deliver it to the colonel.
Next, Sifa left a projection of himself in his room and summoned Kardashian's projection. He had her control Mr. X and use Teleportation, causing the three of them to gradually fade away and vanish from the room.
By his reckoning, he had been using Mr. X as a Marionette for nearly two months. Soon, the Marionette would enter a period of decline and would no longer be as useful as he was now.
Sifa thought it was about time to end his control over this Marionette. After letting him die and obtaining his Traveler characteristic, he would hand the corpse over to Fors so she could deliver it to the Abraham Family. This was something he had promised her earlier.
When they emerged from the Spirit World into reality, the three of them were at a private harbor not far from Bayam. Before long, they reached the city.
The Church of Waves.
Sifa left Kardashian and the Marionette outside the church and went in alone. He remembered to hang the Storm Emblem, which he had not displayed in a long time, prominently on his chest. With it, he was able to meet Bishop Jorgi without difficulty.
The bishop of the Bayam diocese was very surprised by Sifa's visit. Dressed in a loose clerical robe, the white-haired old man's voice rang out like a gale. "Haha, Rayleigh, I haven't heard anything about you in ages. I thought you'd stopped being a hunter."
After exchanging a few pleasantries, Sifa got straight to the point. "Your Excellency Jorgi, I wish to sacrifice an item to the great Lord of Storms. I obtained it during an adventure, and