"Hmm... I once had a theory about the item the Elf King gave the Queen of Calamity to take to the Western Continent.
"If the Elf King really was a contingency prepared by some Sefirah, as I suspect, then that 'thing' was probably connected to a Sefirah...
"No wonder Lilith cared about it!
"Where would Roselle have hidden Hosenam? I don't have a single lead...
"But Hosenam's soul has actually been split in two. One part was originally hidden in the Book of Calamity, and Roselle took it along with the 'thing' inside;
"The other part, in the Golden Chalice, probably sensed something was wrong, severed the connection, and went into hiding...
"And now I not only have the Golden Chalice, I can borrow the Book of Calamity whenever I want. There's a good chance I'll run into one part or the other... Once I find one, the other shouldn't be hard to track down...
"Lastly... Roselle probably learned about the Book of Calamity because the Calamity Seal told him. What is that crafty old Conspirer plotting now?
"When I think about it, everything that's happened to me over the past six months has had something to do with that fellow who transmigrated into a Sealed Artifact!"
At that thought, Abner muttered a few "curses" at the Calamity Seal, then turned his mind to the first task Lilith had given him:
"There are roughly two ways to uncover the secret hidden within the Delien Family...
"First, I could use Selo Delien, the Black Knight whose body and fate were stolen by the former pope of the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun, to investigate from within.
"Second, I could keep putting pressure on the family from outside until they're forced to reveal things they've never shown before...
"Hmm. On the