Fury

"What do you need a sea beast for?" Elland asked casually.

Neph glanced at Klein, then raised an eyebrow. "To feed a pet."

Elland gave her a puzzled look, but still answered:

"That's a little tricky. Large sea beasts generally don't come into shallow waters, unless we get lucky and run into a fishman."

"Get lucky..." Neph repeated thoughtfully. "I understand. Sorry for the trouble, but please keep an eye out for us."

She turned and shot Klein a look. Klein hurried after her, and Danitz followed in utter confusion, shouting as he chased them:

"Hey! Wait for me! Why are you running so fast?!"

Then Gehrman Sparrow mercilessly locked him outside.

"What are you planning to do?" Klein dropped his disguise.

"Although I have a way to influence fate, well..." Neph turned to look at Klein. "Honestly, I haven't succeeded once since I got it. I think we'd better try another approach."

"What approach?" Klein asked, looking at her.

Neph tilted her head and answered frankly, "You'd definitely refuse to pray to my Lord, but you wouldn't be quite so opposed to an angel who serves him, would you?"

After a moment's thought, Klein arrived at the answer and asked for confirmation:

"'Angel of Fate' Ouroboros?"

Neph said nothing. She gazed at Klein for two seconds before giving a slight nod.

As she remembered it, once Klein reached the Faceless stage, reality mingled with the gray fog, and his secret connection to Sefirah Castle became obvious to high-sequence Beyonders.

The True Creator must have noticed Klein already-perhaps he had even noticed something unusual about their interactions when Klein was still at Sequence 7.

She had made no secret of her resistance to the two coming into contact. The True Creator could not possibly have failed to notice. His lack