After stepping out of the cab, Raphael was still considering how to act as a "Living Corpse."
Just then, he heard a newsboy waving a newspaper and shouting, "The 'Clown Angel' has appeared at Saint Hal Hospital again! An injured man miraculously regrew his severed arm! Sir, would you like to read about it?"
Raphael paused in surprise. What "Clown Angel"?
He took out a coin. "A newspaper, please."
After taking the newspaper, he hurried back to his apartment with his two "Copper Corpses."
Raphael sat on the sofa. One "Copper Corpse" handed him a cigarette, while the other lit it for him.
Smoking, Raphael opened the newspaper. He still had not developed a habit of reading newspapers, only buying one occasionally when he heard news that interested him.
The front page carried a speech from the king of Loen, calling on all the people of Loen to join this righteous battle to defend their homeland. Raphael skipped straight past such empty news and found the report about the "Clown Angel" on the second page.
The earlier surprise attack by the Feysac Empire's airships had injured many people, leaving many of them disabled. The sudden catastrophe had robbed countless people of the hope to keep living.
It was at this moment that a miracle appeared. A monster had been making frequent appearances in hospital wards, healing patients' injuries and even allowing severed limbs to grow back.
He was called a monster because some people had seen that his head was woven from straw, others had witnessed stalks of wheat sprouting from it, and still others had seen a face as terrifying as an evil spirit's.
Yet he truly was using Beyonder abilities to heal people's injuries, so they believed a god had sent an angel to save them.
Because this