This was just ridiculous.
"Later, we had a meal together."
Audrey kept laughing. "But you can probably imagine the atmosphere at the time. Fortunately, after the meal, Fors and Mr. Dorian still exchanged contact details. They should... probably get in touch occasionally."
At this, she suddenly asked curiously, "In the 'future' you saw, did Fors do this too?"
"No... her first meeting with Dorian should have been fairly pleasant. After they stayed in contact for a while, Dorian took Fors as his student."
Audrey covered her mouth in surprise. "In other words... Fors beat up her future teacher?"
"After all that, they really might not end up as teacher and student."
"Ah, that would really be a huge loss for Miss Fors."
Indeed. With Dorian as her teacher and the Abraham Family backing her, Fors had practically been guaranteed a smooth ride to becoming an Angel. Now it would be difficult.
"Oh, right."
Audrey remembered something. "Wasn't that Saint of Secrets, Botis, whom you hunted down before, a traitor to the Abraham Family? You also mentioned that you might be able to trade his head to the Abraham Family for something."
"Not just Botis's head. What's even more valuable is that Sealed Artifact, the Box of the Great Old Ones."
Edward replied, "But everything the Abraham Family has suffered over the years has left them rather skittish. If I actually showed up with those two things, I'd only put them on their guard..."
In the original story, Dorian had nearly been frightened into fleeing by Fors. By then, however, he already trusted her a great deal, so after an internal struggle, Dorian had taken poison beforehand and gambled with his life.
From a reader's perspective, Dorian's actions might have seemed unnecessary, but often, people failed to understand others simply because