Only then did Akasha react. First, she stepped forward and gave the charred corpse a vicious kick, then turned back and asked in confusion, "Weren't we supposed to torture him for information first? Why did you just kill him?"
"If we want to know anything, we can just use spirit channeling."
Edward smiled. "This fellow was a lunatic from the Aurora Order. Getting anything useful out of him while he was alive would have been almost impossible."
"The Aurora Order?"
At this point in time, the Aurora Order had only recently been founded. It was still a far cry from the notorious "fame" it would enjoy in the future, when it claimed responsibility for anything and everything.
He first performed a divination to determine whether touching the Brass Rod was dangerous and whether anyone would sense it and discover him. After confirming that neither would happen, he said:
"Wait a moment."
Edward waved his hand, concealing the area around him and vanishing right before Akasha's eyes. Then he slipped into the Leather Pouch and, taking the Shepherd's remaining spirituality and the Brass Rod with him, walked four steps counterclockwise to enter Sefirah Castle.
With Sefirah Castle's enhancement, Edward did not need to pray to anyone to perform spirit channeling. He could do it directly, making him even more of a "Spirit Medium" than a real one.
He looked at the muddled remnant spirituality before him and asked, "Did you kill Earl Clear?"
"Yes."
"Why did you kill him?"
"To do a job for money and spread the Lord's glory."
"Who told you to kill him?"
"I don't know. I don't care."
"Why did you go to 7 Rose Street to take that rod?"
"That person requested it too."
"What does that rod do?"
"I don't know."
"Where were you supposed