The robe Raphael wore was one he had designed himself: a bishop's robe for the Church of the Lord of Evil Desires.
Once he put it on, his frivolous air vanished instantly, and he actually looked rather like a bishop.
Raphael-or rather, the "Demon Personality"-looked at Lejia and smiled. "It seems you didn't take the initiative to pray to the Mother Tree of Desire. Instead, the Mother Tree of Desire influenced you directly, sealing your memories of the great Lord of Evil Desires."
Lejia narrowed his eyes and sneered. "Stop spouting nonsense. You're the Rose School's sworn enemy-"
The Demon Personality abandoned his earlier sinister smile for a thoroughly amiable one. "I know. Your Rose School keeps issuing orders to assassinate me-not just now, either. As early as Sequence 6, I was targeted for assassination by the Mother Tree of Desire.
"Have you ever wondered why the Mother Tree of Desire, a god, would care whether a Sequence 6 lived or died?"
"Because-because-" The question caught Lejia off guard. He really had wondered about it before.
In fact, when Raphael was still at Sequence 7, the leader of the Rose School had already ordered his death. Lejia had been the saint sent to carry out that mission.
However, Lejia had searched Backlund for three months without finding Raphael, so the mission had to be suspended.
Even then, Lejia had found it strange. Did killing a Sequence 7 really require a Sequence 4? What surprised him even more was that he had actually failed.
Now, prompted by Raphael's question, Lejia suddenly realized: this was a struggle between gods!
No wonder a Sequence 7's whereabouts had been so difficult to trace. A god had been helping conceal him!
Everything suddenly made sense to Lejia. Seen that way, sending a Sequence 4 to