"Yes!" Lilith smiled at Abner and answered without hesitation.
Yes? Then my earlier guesses were right! All the "Transmigrators" who weren't in the original story must have been brought here by the Land of Unknown...
But what exactly is that place?
As if she had seen Abner's confusion, Lilith put away her smile and warned him as she had when they first met in East Chester:
"Once you become a Demigod, you'll naturally be able to sense that space... But you'd best not enter it before you become an Angel.
"Also, before you become a Demigod, you can investigate people who might share your origins, but don't dig too deep.
"For you as you are now, merely knowing certain things could cause irreversible changes... and perhaps put you in considerable danger."
Lilith sounded so serious that Abner could not bring himself to press her. After a moment's thought, he asked cautiously, "Then is the second half of the Blood Feast something I'm allowed to learn about?"
That was his main reason for coming to the Harvest Church. With that question, he was also testing whether the Sanguine Duke who had written the Blood Feast was someone like him.
"Always trying to be clever!" Lilith shot him a sidelong glance, then asked with a smile, "I assume you already know the rules for borrowing the second half of the Blood Feast?"
The figure before him was plainly an uncanny-looking man, merely Lilith's Divine Descent Vessel, yet the astonishing beauty in that glance still captivated Abner. It took him a long moment to recover. "Karen told me I'd need certain special antiquities... I'm guessing they're objects left by people in history who shared my origins."
Could this duke, the vessel, have the Beauty Goddess's characteristics? Abner wondered as he spoke.
"To be