After stepping forward to conduct a brief examination and confirming that Layton had merely fallen into a deep sleep rather than died from some unknown curse, Angel finally relaxed. She picked up the two used Charms from the floor and left the suite.
Before leaving, she noticed a small wooden box in the corner of the room. Its lid was open, and it already contained quite a few oddly shaped copper ores.
So this was the "fruit of your labor" over the past week... Angel silently laughed, locked the door from the outside, and turned invisible as she left the inn once more.
Early Thursday morning, fully prepared and carrying all her Charms and Mystical Items, Angel arrived at the mine entrance from yesterday. Before the tourists who mined by day and had to mine in their dreams at night arrived, she entered the mine first.
Having pieced together all the clues from yesterday, Angel was almost certain that the source of the abnormalities in the mine, and even throughout the town, was the site of the cave-in half a year ago. The place Layton and the others had been excavating pointed directly toward that buried pit.
Only after seeing the map of the mine yesterday did she learn that the mine, which had been dug underground from the other side of the small mountain outside town, had gradually looped back toward the vicinity of the town.
After countless twists and turns, she reached yesterday's excavation site. Within the vast cave, a pit dug several meters into the rock stood out sharply under Angel's Dark Vision.
She drew the Good Luck revolver, cocked the hammer so she could fire at any moment, and cautiously approached. Looking at the stone wall pitted by pickaxes, she found nothing inside apart from