The unremarkable-looking "angel" in the room, who had transformed from a "giant wraith," was none other than Sifa.
After receiving Tracy's message, Sifa hadn't acted immediately. Instead, he had left Katarina waiting for three days.
Over those three days, he had occasionally left the fleet to test all his abilities on an uninhabited island, seeking a deeper understanding and firmer grasp of each one.
Then came today.
It had been snowing since morning.
Seeing this, Sifa knew his opportunity had arrived.
When night fell...
He quietly left the flagship and used Weather Manipulation to intensify the wind and snow.
He also shrouded the area around Wilde Street in Mist.
Under the combined cover of the blizzard and mist, Sifa released his projections, including the Sequence 3 Scholar of Yore and the full hundred-strong battalion of Pyromaniacs he had just redeemed.
To do this, Sifa had spent 70,000 subscriptions.
After advancing to a Sequence 2 angel, Sifa could allocate far more power to his soldiers. Combined with Glory's Light, this could raise the Pyromaniacs' destructive power to the level of demigods.
Of course...
They possessed only the destructive power, not the divinity.
Otherwise, this would have been a terrifying force capable of manifesting incomplete mythical creature forms.
After releasing these projections, Sifa used the Wraith Staff together with the Twilight Giant Card to transform into a giant wraith and hide in a nearby window.
He then had the Gehrman projection, who wore a silk top hat and a black wool coat and possessed a stern face and an unyielding air, perform divination using Katarina's blood.
In the end, he successfully pinpointed her location, along with that of the Red Angel evil spirit.
To keep Katarina from entertaining any thoughts of betrayal...
Sifa had devised a plan.
A plan to forcefully drive