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"I can no longer see through Him..."
Hearing this, Leonard's Adam's apple bobbed, but he said nothing.
The office was astonishingly quiet. The sharp clatter of window glass shattered by the ball lightning falling to the floor brought Leonard back to his senses.
Leonard instinctively shifted his feet, then remembered that he was currently staying in the Friendly Church's cathedral as a "collaborator" and a "guest." Someone would come to clean up shortly-in fact, back at the Blackthorn Security Company, he, a Sequence 5 captain, generally hadn't needed to deal with anything he dirtied or broke either, but doing nothing and waiting for others to help wasn't his style.
So he summoned his contracted spirits and asked them to help clean up the broken glass on the floor first.
As for the charred human outline near the doorframe and the Wind-blessed Beyonder characteristic, Leonard decided to leave those to the Church.
After this incident, Leonard's relaxed, cheerful, slightly complaining mood vanished in an instant. He realized that developments between the Fool and Amon did not look promising. His tolerance for the Church of the Storm's coercive, high-handed conduct also increased considerably, and the God of Thunder's image suddenly grew much more imposing.
"Old Man, did you notice anything wrong?"
After Pallez absorbed the dead twelve-loop transparent worm, Leonard tried opening the door again. He found that the scene beyond it had returned to normal. Church Beyonders passed through the corridor from time to time, and the Spirit World's influence was gone.
Of course, Leonard recognized a Worm of Time-after all, when they killed Ince Zangwill, the Fate charms he and Klein used had been made with Worms of Time he had begged from the old man.
Thus, he recognized the Worm of Time at a glance and was certain