Northern Continent, Backlund.
In the early morning, Raphael and Sophia left the apartment separately after a night of passion.
Back at the villa, Raphael stretched. The agitation that had been weighing on him had all been released the night before, leaving him feeling much more refreshed.
He went to the study. The servant had just served tea and refreshments when Florence arrived.
They had agreed the day before to discuss the details of their cooperation today.
Without yesterday's tense, confrontational atmosphere, their conversation today was fairly pleasant.
Once their business was concluded, Florence was about to leave when she suddenly asked Raphael, "Do the higher-ups in your Aurora Order know about this assassin organization you've founded?"
"Some do, and some don't," Raphael said with a smile.
He was now one of the Aurora Order's higher-ups himself, and he certainly knew. As for the other Saints, none of them knew.
Watching the voluptuous Florence leave, Raphael suddenly recalled that, as a member of Rose Redemption, he could establish his own organization and receive support from Rose Redemption.
Should he use Rose Redemption's support to rapidly expand the Mechanic Company?
But Raphael did not want the organization's members to worship the True Creator. This god was not in a good state; even without believing in him, praying to him a few too many times could affect a person.
While he was weighing the pros and cons, Wagner suddenly arrived, bringing Raphael some documents seized from the Rose School.
During their earlier operation against the Rose School, they had seized documents from the residences of both the Marionette and the Wraith.
This was somewhat beyond Raphael's expectations. He had thought that this mad organization had nothing to do with documents or books.
Recently, Wagner had led some people in sorting through the documents,