"The diary said Reinhardt joined the Black Emperor's camp partly because the Night Emperor had ambushed and killed the Tamara Family's Hand of Order...
"And that Hand of Order was Liu Bo—my friend. Old Huang even referred to her as 'she' when he mentioned her...
"The evidence isn't conclusive, but judging by Princess Vera's inexplicable closeness to me, she's probably the Evil Spirit of the Tamara Family's Hand of Order—the one I rescued!
"Her recovery must have something to do with the Uncertain Mist... But as an Outer Deity, the Uncertain Mist would have a will of its own even if it managed to slip through Earth's Barrier. Why would it let Vera control it however she pleased?
"Hmm, Reinhardt may have arranged this... Perhaps the consciousness within the Uncertain Mist was locked inside a Sealed Artifact, just like the Genie?
"To pull that off, he'd have had to trick it into entering a Sefirah or the Land of Unknown..."
At that thought, Abner suddenly remembered the research recorded in the latter half of Blood Feast, along with the experiments he had conducted with Solomon and the God of Death...
"Maybe that was when Reinhardt used the Land of Unknown's peculiar properties to 'summon' the Uncertain Mist from outside!"
As he considered it, Abner decided he should find the island where that "laboratory" stood when he had time. His former self might well have left something there for him.
Or perhaps the Calamity Seal had used those ruins to manipulate Roselle and leave something for his present self...
Yes. After reading those crucial diary entries, Abner was quite certain that most of Roselle's bizarre moves in his later years—moves that differed from the original story—had been guided by the Calamity Seal!
It had used Roselle's actions to conceal its true