"Was that acquaintance you mentioned... yourself?"
Amber's sudden question left Verde speechless. Though the Great Adventurer currently looked like nothing more than a Black Leather Book resting atop a stone pillar, Amber could almost see a bead of cold sweat on that pitch-black cover. It only made her more certain of her guess. "Then that settles it. The acquaintance you mentioned was yourself..."
"Why would you think that?" Only then did Verde's voice suddenly come from the book. The Great Adventurer sounded both surprised and annoyed. "I don't think I gave you any useful information—from beginning to end, I only said a few words to you."
"The Violet Kingdom vanished amid a Supernatural Phenomenon. The fog along its borders and the Shadow Dwellers emerging from it pointed the clues toward the Night Lady. Before that, I'd also heard some interesting... information from certain Shadow Dwellers." Amber looked calmly at the Black Leather Book before her. She had no intention of concealing anything from the Great Adventurer. "And you told me that the Divine Kingdom of Shadow is gradually approaching the real world. That means the Divine Kingdom of Shadow and the real world are gradually converging somewhere..."
She paused and spread her hands. "Right now, an exploration team is operating along Violet's border, and one person in that team has a very special identity. In a sense... he really is your 'acquaintance.' You couldn't possibly be more familiar with each other. And look at it from another angle, Mr. Great Adventurer—what other acquaintances could you possibly have in this world?"
"...An astonishing chain of reasoning," Verde sighed. "It seems I don't understand you well enough, little girl."
"This is what I do," Amber said casually. Then she fixed her gaze on Verde's cover, looking deeply intrigued. "Compared to that trivial