A servant drew back the curtains, and Raphael, seated on the sofa, looked outside. It was a rare sunny day.
After breakfast, Raphael used Traveler to reach the Mechanic Company. With Sophia managing it for over a month, the assassin organization was gradually getting on track.
Taking advantage of everyone's attention being focused on the war or the earlier serial murder case, Sophia had gathered a wealth of information about the wealthy and the nobility.
Since this information consisted of their preferences, illnesses, and other such details rather than secrets, it had attracted very little attention.
With this database, they could quickly devise a way for a target to die and fulfill their clients' commissions both swiftly and effectively.
The Assassin Company currently had no backlog of commissions, and Sophia had also used the characteristics Raphael provided to train two Assassins.
Sophia herself had already advanced to Sequence 5, Demoness of Affliction. Ordinarily, unaffiliated Beyonders at this level were capable of establishing small Beyonder organizations of their own.
Raphael couldn't help marveling. This time, he had chosen the right person. When he had previously put Wagner in charge of the Assassin Company, the work had been outside his area of expertise, so the company's business had never taken off.
Now that a professional assassin was running it, business had not only improved immediately but also showed considerable potential for growth.
Raphael went out to lunch with Sophia, and afterward, they returned to his apartment together.
As soon as they entered, they began kissing passionately and stripping each other's clothes off.
Sophia looked at Raphael and saw that he had turned his head toward the mirror in the living room, his face full of vigilance.
A moment later, Sophia's spirituality seemed to sense something as well, and she too looked toward