Adrian City's Wizard Alliance Office is still busy these days.

"Katie, what would you like to eat?"

Susan, the clerk, waved to the other clerk who was sitting behind the counter with a serious face before heading out. Katie is a few years younger than her, and she's usually quite unreliable, but she's cute. I don't know what's going on lately, Katie has become very diligent, and it's not very appropriate to say that she is diligent, in short, she stays in the office almost all day, regardless of whether it is her turn to be on duty or not.

"Hmm...... Hmmm......"

Katie looked at her in confusion. Susan let out a sigh of relief, and it was clear that Katie was not paying attention to her. "I've bought you red bean bread!" she raised her voice.

"Oh. Katie nodded.

As Susan's back disappeared beyond the open door, the setting sun casting a peaceful golden glow on the street in front of the office, Katie paused for a moment and gently propped up her chin.

After "that incident", she always thought about the little box that had been entrusted to her. According to the agreement, she didn't do any "superfluous things", she never opened it and looked at it, and she didn't know who the person who handed her the box was. The box was to be given to Ivan, only...... Why has it been almost a week and they haven't come back yet?

In fact, Ivan did not deliberately delay on the road.

The church of Yellin seems to have made up its mind to be more careful than it used to be, and has been inspected several times along the way from Port Angel to the city of Sergeland, where the Anglo region meets the Yellin region. As soon as I got off the train, I just dropped off my luggage. Before they even had time to eat dinner, he and Xiulin immediately rushed to the office.

"Yikes!"

As soon as I entered the door, I heard Katie exclaim inexplicably.

Katie, the clerk, was still dressed as before, with a fluffy ponytail, large oval glasses, and wide chocolate-colored eyes. She was standing at the counter, holding a teapot full of black tea.

"Good evening, Katie. Xiulin showed a charming smile, "Your sister Xiulin is back!"

"Ivan?"

To her surprise, Katie didn't come up in a daze as before. Say something like "do you want a cup of black tea?" Her face was pale.

Ivan's heart chuckled.

He'd inquired along the way. The demons who attacked the Anglo region have long since retreated, and the mages are destroying the remaining monsters. He hadn't heard anything about Aisha yet. Why does Katie look so solemn? Could it be that Katie knows about Asha's disappearance?

Bang!

Katie slammed the glass teapot down on the counter. Xiulin narrowed her eyes, and the white figure of Katie in front of her rushed to Ivan, and grabbed his hand without saying anything.

"I've got something to look for you. It's a very important thing! That's right. Sister Xiulin, don't come here!"

“...... What?" Ivan was momentarily stunned. Lately, I have barely closed my eyes, and my brain seems to be duller than before.

Xiulin raised her eyebrows and hooked the corners of her mouth thoughtfully.

"Hmm. No problem!"

In the dimly lit little room, there were some miscellaneous items in a mess, a single bed leaning against the wall, and the bed was also stocked with storybooks and girls' clothes.

It was a temporary resting place for the clerk on duty, and Katie had taken over the room, where she had spent every night for the past few days.

"Katie, that ...... What can't you tell Sister Xiulin?"

Ivan turned around in a daze. Katie actually locked the door, as if she was afraid that Xiulin would suddenly break in. Suddenly, it was as if a bucket of cold water had been poured on his head - he was so anxious that he would think about Essia's disappearance, and if Katie really had news of Essia, she wouldn't hide it from Xiulin......

Katiemer silently turned on the little magic lamp at the head of the bed and pulled out a black cloud from under the pillow. She tilted Naodai, tapped carefully, and then, solemnly, nodded.

"Great!" Katie was overjoyed, completely oblivious to Ivan's lost expression, "Ivan, there's something I want to tell you, it happened six days ago. ”

At this time, Ivan was in a slight trance.

Katie spoke earnestly, holding the black velvet-wrapped box tightly to her chest with both hands. I suddenly remembered that Katie used to tell stories in a similar way...... At that time, the boat was rippling on the sapphire-clear lake, and the sparkling girl under her feet, frightened by the ghost in the story, seemed to have not gone far. At that time, I thought that this life could go on forever.

"--You must take it anyway!"

By the time she came to her senses, Katie's story had already been told. Katie grimaced and handed him the box.

"Uh, what is this?" he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. Didn't pay attention to it.

"Doesn't Ivan know what it is?" Katie didn't seem surprised, "but, the lady said she was going to give it to you." Listening to her tone, it seemed that what "the lady" had said was beyond doubt. Ivan glanced down slightly embarrassedly and took the box. The contents of the box shook a little, making a crisp sound of metal colliding.

"Who gave it to you?" he asked, untying the flannel.

"Ahh I think it's going to be very important, and my task is just to give it to you, and you can just take it!"

Can the "......" run away?

Ivan held the box and remained silent for a few seconds, it seemed that it was not a living thing in the box, and there was no movement at all. He nodded.

"Oh, don't you know the guy who gave it to you?"

"As I said, this is a very mysterious and powerful lady!" Katie folded her hands on her chest, her eyes shining. She used to do the same when she referred to Mistress Laxis, whom she admired the most.

"At first I thought she was a rich lady, but she caught me at once, and she was very powerful! She seemed to be sick, because her hands were cold, and her face was very pale, but she was very imposing!"

I still don't seem to understand what kind of woman this is. Forget it, though, six days ago......

Aisha had disappeared six days earlier.

Ivan did not expect "that lady" to know what Zi wanted. At that time, Messiah Island was still isolated by wind, waves, and torrential rains, and the people on the island did not know what was happening outside, and the people outside probably would not know what was happening on the island.

What's in the box...... He wasn't too interested.

"By the way, Mistress Laxis is back, isn't he?" he turned and walked to the door with the box in one hand, and turned back again.

"I don't know. Katie lowered her gaze. The elation she had just had disappeared at once, and she seemed to want to say something, but she didn't make a sound.

"Haven't you heard anything from Idgraxiu City these days?" Ivan felt that something was not right.

"There's news. Katie's expression seemed to be very sad, "It's like - we've repelled the demons, and there are still some remnants of the monsters entrenched in the north...... or something."

Katie stopped talking again. Ivan already knew the news on the road.

It's weird.

The city of Idgraxiu was attacked by a sneak attack, and there was more than one demon general on the sea, not to mention the northern part of the Anglo region...... What happened on Messianic Island alone is not something that can be explained in a sentence or two. Just calmed down?

Or is someone deliberately hiding it?

There was a strange smell of this war from beginning to end. It seems that you have to go to the city of Idgela to find out the truth. (To be continued......)