The Saint Witch's Girlhood

Inside Tang Qi's guest room aboard the Eternal Siren.

The box he had placed on the table opened on its own under the influence of some force, revealing the Scarlet Duchess within. The incomparably beautiful, mysterious gemstone now flickered with a radiance that made one unable to resist sinking into it.

A scene visible only to supernatural beings unfolded: several different ominous marks emerged on the gemstone's surface, and an aura of misfortune spread through the room.

Inside the room, the three little creatures looked toward the door and curled their lips in unison.

To an ordinary human, the scene before them was practically a nightmare, or a horror movie entering reality.

This was what Tang Qi had meant earlier when he told Tom Larkin he was "killing time." The journey was simply too dull, so deliberately provoking a few Transcendental Gangs that robbed and murdered was a decent way to pass the time.

But that had been his earlier plan. Tang Qi now had something more important to do.

He paid no attention at all to those "terrifying disturbances" and merely instructed Glutton, Night Beast, and the Fairy:

"Play however you like. Just don't make too much noise."

As soon as he finished speaking, excitement and curiosity appeared in Tang Qi's eyes. He closed them and immediately shifted his attention to where Tang Qi Number Two was.

His reaction was easy to understand. No scholar of the New Era could likely resist the chance to witness, or even personally experience, the Dark Age.

Especially since he was utterly certain that the information Tang Qi Number Two had received was real.

He had brought forty Furnace Witches out of the Real World and traveled through time to the distant Dark Age.

"According to the Information Fragment, a Time-Space Bubble could