Bernadette continued, "You succeeded?"
"That's right."
"Did you put us in the Suitcase as objects and sacrifice us to the being you believe in, then have Him transfer us to the outside world?"
Edward sighed. "Yes." Sure enough, I couldn't hide a thing from her.
"The place where we made the sacrifice was that being's..."
"Divine Kingdom!"
Bernadette thought seriously for a while, then asked, "Had you been to His Divine Kingdom before?"
Chapter 365: A New Member of the Tarot Club
The question first startled Edward, then gave him an idea:
As members of the Tarot Club, they went to Sefirah Castle for a gathering every week. Although this seemingly did no harm, Medici had been corrupted after merely coming into contact with the City of Calamity. Even someone as powerful as the Goddess did not dare personally fetch water from the River of Eternal Darkness lightly.
In other words, all of them had long since been corrupted by Sefirah Castle. Perhaps because of Klein's presence, however, this corruption was benign. It felt more as though Sefirah Castle had marked them as "one of its own."
Judging by the current situation, Sefirah Castle needed to verify them during a sacrifice. Inanimate objects such as materials and Sealed Artifacts passed directly; living people required a second verification. Those bearing its mark could enter, while those without it were rejected outright.
If this deduction was correct, to let Lilith and Bernadette leave the Forsaken Land of the Gods through a sacrifice, he first had to get them to pray to Mr. Fool, then have them brought into Sefirah Castle to be marked? (A fan-created interpretation; please don't take it seriously. Thank you.)
Lilith was no problem, just a Sequence 8 small fry.
But Bernadette was a Sequence 3! Surely Klein's current