Night had fallen.
A faint mist drifted through Cookawa City, making the city seem blurred and unreal within the fog.
Inside the Evernight Church, Lewis met a woman.
She wore the robes of an ordinary clergyperson of the Church of Evernight. She had beautiful black hair and delicate features.
It was difficult to tell her true age, though of course, no one would care about that.
Those who saw her would only notice her deep eyes, which seemed to hold countless intricacies within them.
Lewis lowered his head in respect.
This woman was Ilia, the Archbishop of the Church of Evernight on the Southern Continent, known as the Eye of the Goddess.
"Sorry for the trouble, Archbishop."
Lewis took out the letter he had received in the carriage and offered it with both hands.
He then described what they had seen inside that apartment building.
Ilia looked at the phrase on the letter and asked, "What is your judgment?"
Lewis adjusted his seemingly heavy black-rimmed glasses. "Judging from the scene, there were indeed traces of Devil worship."
"But there is no direct evidence that a Demon or Devil was involved."
"So I cannot be certain."
Ilia placed the letter on the table. "Then what do you think of this letter?"
Lewis raised his head and replied, "There are two possibilities."
"One, a wild Beyonder in Cookawa City happened to witness the murder but was unable to intervene, so he alerted us officials."
"Furthermore, that Beyonder could not have been weak. If what he said was true, and he could encounter a Devil killing someone yet escape unharmed, then he was at least Sequence 4, half human and half Demigod."
"The second possibility is that the murderer left it behind to mislead our investigation."
"If that is the case, then arranging