High Reverend’s office, Palis Head Office, Church of Nature.0

High Reverend Sandrine stood in the corner like a small-time lackey, not daring to raise her voice. In the room was a reincarnated angel, three Holy Maidens, and a chosen knight, as well as the knight’s secretary, vassal, and pet. She couldn’t afford to offend any of them.0

This office, she thought, was going to become the venue of an orgy. If she, someone who didn’t have a label to match the others, stayed around, she might be caught in the crossfire. Then there would be a simple apology with no offer of compensation. She would just be collateral damage.0

Yet she couldn’t leave.0

Wayne had said that since the Church of Sun and the Church of Moonlight had been taken out, the demons, creatures of obsession they were, weren’t going to spare the Church of Nature. A wave of attackers was on their way, and as the District High Reverend, she would be first in the line of fire—she would be the demons’ primary target.0

Sandrine didn’t know where Wayne’s confidence came from, but the all-knowing look on his face seemed genuine; he believed that no one knew better than he did. She desperately wanted to flee, but with her life on the line, her legs refused to take that first step...0