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Edward turned into an alley and suddenly forgot what he was going to do next.
"..." He pressed a hand to his temple. A second later, a greeting was stuffed into his mind along with his previous thoughts.
Edward raised his head slightly and looked into the distance. A black raven with white rings around its eyes stood on a rooftop several dozen meters away. After he glanced at it, the raven toppled straight off the roof and fell out of sight.
"Amon," Edward said to the air. "Have you come to avenge your brother?"
"No, I have no intention of fighting you. I just came to see what the 'Devil' who made that paranoid fellow suffer twice looks like."
Before he had finished speaking, an Amon wearing a monocle rounded the street corner, dressed in Southern Continent clothing and holding a cup of flavored fruit drink that hissed with cold vapor. Another Amon, dressed as a typist from the Middle Sonia Company, also ran over, his sleeves rolled up to his elbows and a stack of documents in his arms. A white cat with black rings around its eyes dozing on a wall, two birds that had landed on a distant clothes rail, and countless insects all looked over.
"You've seen me. You can disappear from my sight now."
"One more thing. You managed to defeat Adam's Sequence One avatar in a space of consciousness. That's simply incredible."
The leading Amon was a Sequence 3 Mentor of Deceit. With his ability to escape and his pathway's formidable resurrection techniques, he was not particularly nervous. Besides, a Sequence 4 avatar was there behind him. Even if he could not win, escaping would be no problem. So he leisurely took a sip of his drink and continued, "I don't work