After thinking for a moment, Abner temporarily set aside the matter of Amon. After all, even if that steward really was one of Amon's avatars, His priority targets would be those Men in Black of the Marauder Pathway. It was unlikely that He would come specifically after Edwina and him.
Moreover, although Abner's Demigod-level experience of Imitation had ended, he still had a Historical Projection charm bestowed by the goddess. At a critical moment, he could even use it to invite Lilith's descent... so he was not particularly afraid of Amon's avatar.
As for the possibility that Amon might steal his thought of using the charm? It had to be said that after becoming a Demigod, a Reader could think in Multithreading. The ability of Analysis was extremely effective at countering this sort of thought-stealing behavior. Through the Pure White Eye, Abner had already become accustomed to this kind of Multithreading from Sequence 9 onward.
After dealing with Lister and his confidants, Abner had Cecia, who was possessed by a Demon, find somewhere to have afternoon tea. He himself took the Magic Mirror's main body and followed Mrs. Denise, who had left earlier.
—He suspected that the Men in Black's base was not truly in the real world... or rather, perhaps it was in some space overlapping with reality. That was why he had left Cecia here as a marker.
As the noblewoman of the family that truly controlled Walian in Tosk, Mrs. Denise naturally did not enter the Ratway through the sewer entrance in the lower-class district shown in the image Arrodes had once provided.
Instead, she first took a carriage to a secluded villa, then entered its basement and opened a hidden door.
After stepping through the hidden door and walking through a relatively clean passageway, she entered