The group finally arrived at the home of the local lord.

After a brief briefing, they walked into the rather secluded-looking manor.

When the people in it saw the girl's body, they didn't seem too surprised.

But the lords and their wives wept.

"My daughter...... Although I knew that there would be such a day......"

The two of them seem to love their daughter quite much.

In the last days of the evening, the lord was left to take care of the complicated affairs of the town during the plague.

It wasn't until it was almost late at night that he gradually began to tell the story.

He and his wife have been married for many years and have no children. It's hard to tell which of the two is the question.

They prayed earnestly to God that the gods would give them children.

And then, like in a fairy tale.

On a spring day the following year, the lord's wife gave birth to a baby girl.

The baby girl was born in a very weak body, and later the doctor said that it was due to a congenital disease.

Everyone could see the girl's desire, but no one dared to let her really try.

Until recently, the family became aware of the girl's research on some mysterious rituals, but the lord did not expose it out of guilt for his daughter.

Sounds like a fairy tale, doesn't it?

It's just that whether this story has a beautiful ending or a weird horror depends on ......

......

Nighttime.

Mr. Zero and the Pope of Mechanic muttered something about something.

And Annott is bored.

"......" Annott sat quietly by the window, looking at the starry sky at night, thinking about everything that happened today, and a sense of powerlessness came to her heart again.

I can't do anything now.

Is it true that I still hold myself as an angel and am I worthy of these two words?

The kind children who want to help will only fall into the hands of the devil if they do not rely on the strength of others.

She was suddenly a little confused, did she fall into the heavens and lose her power, or did she lose her strength and fall into the world?

"What else can I do now......" the girl whispered, as if whispering.

In the end, I have only known the girl for half a day, and in the end, I don't even know her name.

What does her life and death have to do with herself?

Annott suddenly remembered that the lord's wife seemed to have said that the maiden's room was next door to where they were resting.

“...... Check it out, what will you find......"

The words are still confused, but the body moves faster than the words.

The girl, caught in a whirlpool of self-doubt, stopped thinking and walked straight into the room where the dead girl had lived.

It's almost rudimentary, with only a lot of professional works on music or sheet music, and a scattering of occult books that seem ominous at first glance. The decoration in the room was almost none, and there was a faint smell of medicine lingering.

Miss Angel walked over to the ominous book and took a closer look.

The cover is full of specious occult symbols, but it is also similar to most of the world's deceptive forgeries.

The real power is the contract that the devil left in this book. Annott thought.

But now I can clearly feel that the ominous atmosphere is constantly dissipating.

Is it because the devil has completely abandoned the medium here?

Annott couldn't help but want to laugh a little, it was such a powerful anomaly, but was scared like this by Mr. Zero?

But then she remembered the thing that had been bothering her all along.

"Mr. Zero", who is it?

Or what is the meaning of the existence of "Mr. Zero"?

I trust and even rely on Mr. Zero very much, but this kind of problem still haunts me from time to time.

Because Mr. Zero ...... Even in this world overflowing with anomalies, it seems too abnormal.

If other anomalies, including the previous Devil, were small holes in a piece of paper, Mr. Zero was like a black hole that had pierced through the paper and sunk endlessly.

“...... Isn't this analogy too much for Mr. Zero? Annott smiled wryly.

Or is he the paperweight who has been trying to re-flatten the paper......

It had always seemed like he was trying to heal the effects of the anomaly, but today, he said he wasn't fighting the anomaly......

...... Hmm, is that what you say?

But he's always just called himself an ordinary person.

Really, where is there an ordinary person like him?

There are many feats that even ordinary gods can achieve......

If you think about it, if he claims to be God, it really seems more natural than he is now calling himself a man.

Miss Angel's thoughts flew out of the clouds again.

However, since Mr. Zero insists on it, he should regard him as an "ordinary person".

Anyway, I already trusted him so much.

He's an "ordinary person" and I'm an "ordinary person" myself, hehe.

Annott snickered in her reverie.

Once again, trying to dispel the clutter of her thoughts, she searched the room carefully.

There is no trace of it.

Rather, the simplicity of the room was impossibly clean, and there was hardly any trace of human life other than what was seen at first.

"Is this the kind of life you've been living all along...... If it were me, I might ...... too."

Maybe I'd rather burn the few lives I had left for a moment of freedom.

But Annott wasn't sure either. After all, without personal experience, it would be arrogant and disrespectful to make speculations without permission.

"Is there really no clue...... the girl gradually became a little agitated.

Yes, maybe my instincts are too sensitive...... It's just a vague hallucination.

I always feel that this lonely and lonely child should leave something behind, in anticipation of the arrival of someone who understands him......

Yes. I seem to get it.

Annott seemed to remember what she had missed.

Think about what the girl once said to herself.

Listening, if she tries to listen again in the place where she has always lived, what will she find?

The angel thought so.

......

"Mr. Zero, I just went to her room to have a look...... I saw these books. "It's better to report this to Mr. Zero. Thinking so, Annott took the books and handed them to Mr. Zero.

"But the strange aura seems to have dissipated. Annott said.

"......" Mr. Zero flipped through it a little hastily and put the book aside. "There's nothing to pay attention to in the book itself. But Annot, don't you have any doubts?"

"Question...... What?" Annott tilted her head with a goofy look.

“...... All right. Don't you think it's strange why a sick, frail, noble lady who doesn't leave home can get such a thing?" said Mr. Zero, seemingly casually.

"According to common sense, unless someone deliberately looks for this kind of book or even gives it to her, she herself will not be able to access these banned things. ”

"Is that so...... I don't know much about it. Miss Angel blushed a little at the omission of her common sense.

"Yes, in this case, it can only be said that someone deliberately brought that young lady into contact with this evil contract, and finally lost her life because of it......

So, the people who are able to do such things that are close to murder...... Who is it?"