I do not know. But he has been slinking around in the shadows of Meridian since some time before the Advocate Oracle trial.

[Hayame's anger used to be cold. But now... now it is hot, like a burning sun.]

I will harm myself if I please. I would have done it the night that demon returned me to Springstar if Claude had not-

[Deep breaths-- She can't embarrass him like that.]

If I had not been asked not to. But I refuse to let this eye sit in my head a week longer, risking betraying something to Zenith every time my eyepatch slips.