Self-Introduction

"So Weiser knows you in the Void Realm and also knows the real you, just like Witch..."

There was a subtle hint in Sonia's tone.

Lysithea blinked and hurriedly explained, "Before you gave me the Soul Summoning Spell Spirit that contained the 'Secret concept,' Ash, I had no idea Watcher was Ash! I wasn't trying to hide it, but so much happened right after that. I became the Gospel Incarnation, the Empress Isu, and I had to rely on the Secret-Keeping Authority inside the 'Secret concept' to resist the God's corruption. Even if I'd wanted to come clean back then, I couldn't."

"It's only because I'm using the Subverting the Superior Miracle now to barely hold back the Gospel God's influence that I dare to reveal my true identity."

Ash paused in surprise, then asked, "So when Lys and I first met, you actually didn't know who I really was? You didn't recognize me in the Void Realm?"

"Have you forgotten your Silver Blessing, Observer's Visage?" Lysithea asked back. "I couldn't see your face clearly at all in the Void Realm... It wasn't until after you left the Gospel Country that your Observer's Visage finally stopped working on me."

"And you deliberately avoided revealing anything about your real life in the Void Realm. How was I supposed to connect Watcher and Ash as the same person?"

Ash murmured, "I didn't think that really was the case..."

He paused, then looked at the two of them and said, "Then I may have met another Witch, and another Sword Maiden."

He told them about Black and White, who had signed the Non-Interrogation Treaty with him, and Death Frenzy, who had once visited him in Broken Lake Prison. Sonia and Lysithea shook their heads repeatedly as they listened. "I never did anything like