After pushing the "doll" back into his coat pocket, Abner first put away the beast-hide book and crystal ball, placing them in the "lounge" of the "Dream Labyrinth Tower" to study slowly when he had time. Only then did he sit in Giant Ozil's former seat, waiting for the Beyonder Characteristic to emerge while pondering the information he had just obtained.
"First, Ozil called his true backer Your Excellency Pann... Anyone worthy of being addressed as Your Excellency either has a noble status or is a Demigod...
"And the surname 'Pann' is common in Feysac. I remember Edwina telling me that the newly promoted Demigod of the Church of Combat was named Niango Iziamai Panin. He was also the father of that tool pirate who challenged the Pale Admiral at the Pirate Gathering... Could it be him?
"If it really is, then perhaps Ozil was not only acting as a pirate fence and intelligence dealer, but also playing the role of a Feysac spy?
"Hmm, once the Characteristic emerges, I'll send him Above the Gray Fog before his spirit completely dissipates and ask Klein to help divine it...
"Ah, I'm still better at interrogating the living. I killed him a little too quickly just now..."
Thinking of this, Abner sighed. In truth, he had not initially intended to kill the man so quickly. It was only because, before entering the villa, he had happened to see a dying young girl, like a broken doll, being thrown out...
Before he could go over to help her, the girl had breathed her last...
Filled with outrage, he had struck hard and killed that scoundrel after "guiding" the important information out of him.
Shaking his head to cast aside those extraneous thoughts, Abner continued considering the information he had obtained earlier.
"Second, if