After Abner, the Evernight Goddess, Lilith, the Fool, and Adam joined forces to ambush the Mother Goddess of Depravity and the Mother Tree of Desire, extracting their consciousnesses and Sefirah and sealing them within a Sealed Artifact formed from the Beyonder Characteristics of the Gluttony Angel and the Apocalypse Apostle, Roselle freed himself on his own.
After all, his trouble had been the Mother Goddess of Depravity's corruption. Now that even the source of that corruption had become a "cup," it naturally posed no further threat.
After escaping, Roselle had intended to find Abner and fulfill his promise to "give him a beating." But the moment he returned from the Night Emperor's divine kingdom to reality, he saw that the detestable fellow had already been waiting on the small island that served as the "exit," together with Bruna and Isabella.
—Bruna was a former princess of the Balam Empire, while Isabella was a former princess of the Duchy of Lenburg. Both had intimate relationships with Roselle.
Faced with Abner's faintly mocking expression, Roselle could only suppress his violent thoughts. After all, he knew full well that he currently could not defeat a Great Old One. If he forcibly made a move and the other man did not go easy on him, he would embarrass himself in front of the ladies.
Besides, in Roselle's mind, there was a high chance that that bastard Liu Bo would not go easy on him...
Thus, they merely caught up peacefully before taking a ship to Enmat Harbor. They then planned to take a train to the Kingdom of the Ring Sea to visit Bernadette, who was serving as the Hierophant of the Church of God of Truth.
Although Abner could open a Teleportation, or Roselle could Distortion the distance and arrive instantly, the latter