This was also where Lynn's suspicions had begun.
Because the Matriarch's curse was [Death-Binding Curse], those barbed chains that brought endless pain, pinning your soul and body in place, leaving you unable to move and forcing you to endure the torment.
But if it wasn't because of the curse's negative effects, what other reason could there be for the [Chaotic Evil] label to appear on a holy angel?
So from that moment on.
Lynn had kept his guard up.
Because later, when he came into contact with the Plague Doctor faction, he had genuinely found himself deeply puzzled.
Sir Awen had said that the appearance of the Plague Doctors could be traced back almost to the founding of the City of Night. And like maggots clinging to the bone, they could never be swept away or wiped out. Whenever you thought the City of Night was finally free of their infiltration, they would inexplicably appear again.
Why was that?
What had caused this organization that revered evil to come into being?!
Why had an Origin as powerful as the Matriarch failed, over thousands of years, to discover the reason the Plague Doctors had emerged or identify the mastermind behind them?!
That in itself wasn't normal!
Because even if she couldn't find them, there shouldn't have been absolutely no information about that mastermind.
And he knew Sir Awen must have known a great deal. Otherwise, he wouldn't have worn that expression of weary resignation to fate when he told Lynn that the Plague Doctors in Dark Night City could never be eradicated.
Precisely because of that, when he had seen those fluttering Black Feathers just now.
He had immediately connected this suddenly appearing Origin with his Matriarch.
Given the Matriarch's influence over the entire Night Doctor organization, it should have been