After returning from above the Gray Fog to the Safe House in reality, Abner stroked his chin and muttered soundlessly, "Mr. Fool was a little moved... He even chatted with me about some events from his past life..."
Recalling the emotions Klein had tried so hard to suppress just now, Abner smiled knowingly before turning his thoughts to the answers Arrodes had given him.
"God's Casket actually has a lid? Since Arrodes deliberately mentioned it, it was clearly very important... Why did Roselle take it away? Was it for the plan he had mentioned before—to release Mr. Door, break through the Western Continent's seal, and use Sefirah to help himself escape the corruption?"
"I can't determine that for now, but the lid is very likely in the hands of someone connected to Roselle... Well, excluding Bernadette... Even in his deranged final years, Roselle had deliberately avoided dragging his little princess into all this trouble."
"So who could it be? His adopted son Ialdabaoth? Edwina's teacher, Isabella, the former princess of Lenburg? Bruna, the former princess of the Balam Empire? Some succubus**? Or his Men in Black subordinates?"
"There are a little too many possibilities..."
"Secondly, there's a term Arrodes mentioned that concerns me... 'One personality of the Queen of Calamity'..."
"I used to think the Queen of Calamity's soul had split... But now it seems she had been divided into two personalities? And there were only a few abilities capable of making an Angel split into different personalities..."
"Was Hosenam corrupted by the Moon like Roselle, or influenced by the Angel of Imagination or the True Creator?"
At that thought, Abner could not help imagining the Golden Chalice saying to the Book of Calamity, "Adam gave me humanity."
*"Lastly, the fifth survivor was a woman in her twenties... This clue