At night, outside the somewhat old house of great detective Isengard Stanton in Hillston District, Abner, with Psychological Invisibility activated, headed straight for the front door.
Speaking of which, after leaving the Church of the Earth Mother that afternoon, Abner had first gone to the house Xio and Fors rented to tell them that he had arrived in Backlund.
—Since it was not far away, he had not used Fool communication.
Xio had not been home at the time. Only Fors, who had just been forcibly dragged into exercising by Xio for over an hour, lay on the sofa like a salted fish.
Seeing a stranger appear in the room, Fors jumped in fright. Only when Abner revealed his true face did she breathe a sigh of relief.
Xio did not return to the residence until evening. The three of them then had dinner together and briefly exchanged stories of their respective experiences. Only then did Abner leave the house rented by the two ladies and, following the Psychological Suggestion he had previously planted, walk to his teacher's home.
But the moment he reached the door of Detective Isengard's house, Abner sensed that something was wrong...
This feeling did not come from him noticing anything himself, but from the Magic Mirror on his person!
The Magic Mirror had Grazed a Sequence 4 Devil, allowing its contracted owner to share a certain degree of danger perception.
Even though Abner was under Psychological Invisibility, he had been targeted by malice upon approaching his teacher's house—and that malice could genuinely harm him!
Was there a Demigod or a powerful Sequence 5 in his teacher's home? Just as Abner, who had forgotten all the plot related to the Desire Apostle, formed that guess, the front door of the house creaked open by itself, as