You were the one testing him.
Hearing this, Luo Shu had a sudden realisation.
He recalled his chance encounter with Robert on the slope near the Sawamura residence.
He remembered Robert's inexplicable suspicion that Sayuri Sawamura was having an affair with him, leading to his hiring of Kogoro Mouri to investigate.
Finally, he connected it to the gardener's bizarre murder of Robert out of unrequited love for Sayuri Sawamura.
If Robert had grown wary after returning from a long business trip to find Luo Shu visiting his home...
Then everything fell into place.
"Tch, this is really..." Luo Shu didn't know what to say now.
So, he was the reason Eriri lost her father?
Luo Shu suddenly felt sorry for Eriri and Sayuri Sawamura.
If not for him, perhaps they would still be a happy family?
Though from another perspective, by driving away the danger lurking around them, he might have actually done them a favour?
At this thought, Luo Shu truly didn't know what to say.
Especially when considering how to explain this to Sayuri Sawamura and Eriri afterwards—it gave him a headache.
With a resigned sigh, he finally asked:
"When did Robert join the Hell Sect?"
"About five years ago."
Nia Honjo scooped up a spoonful of omelette rice, eating as she spoke:
"Before joining, he was already a well-known mercenary on the mystic side. The identity of Robert was fabricated twenty-one years ago."
"Oh, by the way, the Spencer family lineage connected to Robert? It's all the same person."
"The same person?" Luo Shu froze, his expression turning strange.
"Yes. Parents, servants, pets, some friends and even a fiancée—all the same person."
"Some call him the Heart Snatcher."
Nia Honjo looked up at Luo Shu with a smile:
"But nowadays, people refer to him—no, should I say her—as Lady Greed."
"La...dy?"
Luo Shu was stunned.
At this moment, a giant question mark seemed to float above his bewildered head.
"Yes, lady. Her original name was probably Enigma, with a rather simple ability: theft."
"At first, she could only steal objects, acting like a common thief. But after upgrading her ability, she gradually learned to steal a sorcerer's powers, even memories and identities."
"According to SDS evaluations, her stealing ability can already be rated as Demigod Rank."
"And it was by using this stealing ability that she impersonated and controlled multiple identities to evade risks."
"The Spencer lineage that Robert belonged to was one such identity entirely stolen, with the false identity of Robert fabricated in its place."
"Heh, in fact, before deciding to marry Sayuri Sawamura, Enigma was active under the identity of Emma, Robert's fiancée."
"Isn't that amusing?"
"Playing the role of her own fiancée, letting a young beauty steal herself away, then marrying and bearing a child."
"That Lady Greed is truly a woman with twisted tastes~"
Listening to Nia Honjo's explanation between mouthfuls of food, Luo Shu fell into deep contemplation:
"So, the person I was envying and resenting was actually a woman?"
Hearing this, Nia Honjo nearly choked on her omelette rice. After pounding her chest several times to swallow, she stared blankly at Luo Shu:
"Good grief, that's what had you looking so conflicted?"
With that, she grabbed her soda, took a big sip through the straw, exhaled loudly, and quipped:
"I thought you'd be more hung up on the fact that the lady is a 35-year-old pure-hearted wife who's already borne a child."
"Weren't you rather taken with Madam Sayuri?"
Luo Shu didn't deny it, simply changing the subject: "More than craving the lady's body, I'm curious about something else."
"What's that?" Nia Honjo cradled her soda, calmly stating: "Since I'm in a good mood today, answers about the Sawamura family are free~"
Luo Shu pretended not to hear Nia Honjo's remark, instead asking with a peculiar expression:
"How exactly was Eriri born?"
"Oh, that child..."
Nia Honjo's eyes widened in realisation. She glanced at Luo Shu, blinked, looked again, then sipped her juice:
"I've changed my mind. I don't want to explain that one."
Luo Shu didn't respond, simply staring at her unblinkingly.
After a full two minutes of this, Nia Honjo blew bubbles into her soda, creating a ring at the bottom of the glass before sighing:
"Honestly, don't rely too much on divination, and especially not on me!"
"In this world, there are many things that can interfere with divination."
After this complaint, she exhaled deeply:
"All I can say is that Eriri's birth was entirely part of Enigma's plan."
"She once obtained the blood of a high-ranking being, coveted its power, but couldn't claim it."
"During her repeated attempts, she stumbled upon a method to acquire this power by chance."
"That was through a surrogate-like process, transforming the blood's power into an individual that could be stolen."
"Eriri Sawamura Spencer was born for this very purpose."
"You could even say the Spencer lineage of Robert's line existed solely for this child's birth."
"Using the protection of England's Sacred King technique to weaken the blood's power, with the pureblood of the Sawamura family – shrine maidens connected to Japan's ley lines – as the maternal vessel, the final product was Eriri Sawamura Spencer."
"A hybrid simultaneously possessing both human and fairy bloodlines!"
Nia Honjo gazed at Luo Shu, then suddenly let out a light laugh:
"Actually, Luo Shu, you should count yourself lucky. If not for your sudden intervention, in another month or two, when the time was ripe, both Eriri and Madam Sayuri Sawamura might have become part of Enigma. Who knows?"
Hearing this, Luo Shu's eyes flickered before he exhaled softly and said:
"So this is the truth about the Sawamura Family?"
Nia Honjo raised her hand and, amidst a faint blue glow, grasped a black book emblazoned with a cross.
Spirit Dress of Divine Might, Second Form!
—Raziel, the Book of Omniscience!
Clutching Raziel, Nia Honjo declared to Luo Shu:
"Yes, this is the truth about the Sawamura Family!"