Madeline's manuscript recorded the course of her investigation.
According to her notes, she arrived in this village on the 18th. Because of her former status as clergy, she stayed at the village church, and the villagers welcomed her warmly.
She wrote, "...This is a very peaceful little village. The villagers are somewhat wary, but I can understand them. After I introduced myself, they were fairly welcoming..."
That was the only description of the village. Everything afterward was basically about the monster known as the Wanderer.
Madeline emphasized that this was not the first time she had encountered the Wanderer. The last time had been when she was nine years old, which was also the last recorded appearance of the Wanderer.
Just as the detective's corpse had suggested, Madeline mentioned that there had also been a heavy snowstorm thirty years ago. She and her family had been spending Christmas at their vacation home, but on that very night, the terrifying Wanderer appeared. Her family was brutally murdered, and only she and her youngest sister survived.
From then on, she had been tracking the monster, but these strange occurrences followed no particular pattern. The Wanderer did not appear on every snowy day, so she had found nothing.
But that did not mean her research had yielded no results. On the contrary, after successfully becoming a member of the clergy, she used the church's records to summarize several traits shared by such anomalies.
First, the monsters among these anomalies could not act however they pleased. They were bound by certain restrictions.
That was good news to Schiller. Of course, if they really were invincible, there would be no point in playing this game. Nothing in the world was without limits, not even God.
But the further Schiller read, the heavier his heart became.