“Wait! Wait a moment!”

Ciel spoke. It seemed there was something else she wanted to ask, but the white armor with gilded ornaments before her disappeared too quickly. As soon as Ciel spoke, the other party vanished without a trace.

Damn it.

She should have given it more blood and asked more questions…

But the other party seemed to be in a hurry. After calling out the name “Time-Binder,” it didn’t even want to stay for another moment and directly dissipated.

“Time-Binder” should be the “Echo of the Silver-White Time-Binder”—which was the name of Ciel’s pocket watch. Ciel didn’t understand why it knew so quickly and immediately called her by the name of the pocket watch.

Was it because she had used the pocket watch in the Other Side before? Or was it because she had dragged the quill pen with the “Uniqueness” gear into the Other Side that its aura was sensed?

Also, it was something Ciel intended to summon to hold back Forte. Now that it had disappeared, it meant that there was nothing left to contain Forte over there… Forte was very likely to return to the Westminster District.

Forte returning to the Westminster District might go find Lafayette again, or even continue to investigate her appearance at Windsor Palace. The simulation would become even more dangerous then…

Information has been gathered. This is not a good place to stay for long…

Ciel glanced at the already decaying iron armor shell lying on the ground, which had originally symbolized the Pope. After thinking for a moment, she still attempted to drag the iron armor and walk up the stairs… Dragging this thing with her current arm strength was indeed a bit strenuous, so she walked extremely slowly.

Meanwhile, in the Pope of the Church of the God of Order’s private prayer room upstairs, Archbishop Henry, who had been waiting there, seemed to have a premonition of something and quickly walked towards the outside.

“What are you doing?”

Tara, who was monitoring his movements beside him, called out to him directly after seeing Henry’s unusual actions.

The Mother Goddess was still downstairs and hadn’t come up yet. While the Mother Goddess was attending to something, Tara did not want any unexpected events to occur outside—if they did, Tara would consider it her responsibility.

“I must excuse myself, Your Excellency.”

Henry was extremely anxious. He quickly said, “I must go welcome Lord Pope.”

Welcome the Pope?

Isn’t his Pope downstairs?

“No, you cannot leave.”

Tara slowly said, “You must wait until the two people from downstairs come up before you can leave.”

Hearing Tara’s words, Percy also turned and looked at Henry.

As soon as Henry made any unusual move, the white shadow would restrain him.

“Lord Pope is no longer downstairs…”

Henry watched as he couldn’t leave and could only fret in place. “I can swear by the name of the God of Order. I can directly sign the Eye of Order Contract to prove that my departure this time is without any malice or scheming towards you.”

Seeing that the other party was indeed a bit anxious, and the people downstairs didn’t seem to be coming up anytime soon, she slowly said, “You can leave, but you must have one of our people accompany you.”

She would send two Tier 3 bishops to follow him, record what they saw and heard, and report back to Lord Mother Goddess.

But Henry, upon hearing Tara’s words, his originally nervous expression instead calmed down.

He held his iron helmet and shook his head, saying, “No… Please allow me to refuse. This is a secret of the Church. You should understand… This is a secret that not everyone is qualified to see.”

“Only one person can accompany me, you,”

Henry slowly shifted his gaze from Tara to Percy, “or her.”

Henry could tell that, besides Ciel, the highest-ranking people present were Tara and the Tier 4 individual. At least people of this level were qualified to follow.

This was also allowing for the fact that Lord Pope and Her Excellency Ciel seemed to be getting along well in conversation.

Tara heard this, turned to glance at Percy, then turned back to look at Henry again.

“Okay, I will go with you.”

Tara slowly said and directly stepped forward.

If Percy followed, they could indeed perfectly control the other party…

But even if all the people remaining were tied together, they wouldn’t be able to bring Lord Mother Goddess out of the Holy See of the Church of the God of Order—if the other party turned against them.

Therefore, it was most reasonable for Percy to stay and protect Lord Mother Goddess, and for herself to follow and monitor.

“Please follow me.”

Seemingly surprised by the green-haired girl’s choice, Henry looked deeply at Tara, then turned and left the room with Tara.

Tara followed closely behind him, passing through several connecting corridors, and arrived before a large door located on the top floor.

This place originally seemed to be a meeting room, but the door was tightly closed. From the dust on the door’s ornaments and the empty corridor, it was clear that this was a restricted area where even the church attendants assigned to cleaning were not allowed.

“Eye of Order above…”

Henry raised his hand and placed his iron-armored right hand on the contract posted on the door.

A sapphire blue light flashed from the parchment contract. Henry slowly moved aside, looked at Tara who had followed him, and said, “Please sign the contract… otherwise you cannot enter inside.”

Tara said nothing. She just stepped forward and glanced at what was written on the contract.

This… seemed to be a very detailed confidentiality agreement that would prevent the signatory from revealing any secrets seen inside the door.

“I need to report everything truthfully to Your Excellency Ciel.”

Tara did not directly sign the contract. Instead, she looked up at Henry, “This contract needs to be modified.”