At the Hot Spring Resort on Tamik Mountain, outside Indo Port.
"His Excellency Duke Graycastle, Wimbledon Einhorn, and His Excellency Archbishop Ivan Andronik of the Church of Combat have arrived in Indo. They will attend the Twilight Day Celebration at the Pete Grand Hotel." Abner, having afternoon tea with the ladies Greed and Sloth, idly flipped through the Indo Morning Post in the sitting room.
Hearing Abner murmur to himself, Sloth, Closia, turned to Miss Xenia, Greed, and asked:
"If I remember correctly, Duke Graycastle is your student's father?"
She wore a loose beige bathrobe and looked as though she had just come from the hot springs.
Countess Xenia, also in a bathrobe, nodded, her long hair pinned up behind her head. "That's right. Nashali is Wimbledon's daughter."
"Duke Graycastle is a Beyonder too, isn't he? What level?" Abner looked over and asked curiously.
"Wimbledon Einhorn is an Iron-blooded Knight, but he seems to be close to a certain organization in secret. With its full support, he acted as an intermediary between it and the royal family. That's why he was granted a dukedom with real power." Countess Laws thought for a moment, then added, "I imagine he finds his current position awkward, though. Apart from his eldest son, he has deliberately kept his distance from his other children, leaving them to make their own way while offering only essential support.
"That's how Nashali came to be my student."
The corners of Closia's mouth lifted, revealing a dimple. "Sounds like the organization he's mixed up with is nothing respectable."
Xenia chose her words carefully. "There are rumors that the people he's in contact with might be a Devil family."
*A Devil family... Andariel, after Ialdabaoth brought them together? Yes, judging from the memories I obtained from Cecia and the other