Were they both still alive?

At noon on Thursday, a steam train pulling numerous carriages, white smoke trailing from its chimney, slowly rolled into the station in northern Backlund.

Looking at the familiar buildings outside the window, Angel sighed inwardly:

Backlund, I'm back again.

Over the two-day journey, she had grown so bored that she had begun studying the newspaper's gossip columns word by word. If the food in the first-class carriage hadn't been reasonably good, Angel would have lost patience long ago and slipped into the Mirror World to return to Backlund ahead of schedule.

Naturally, she hadn't overlooked the advertisements in Trier's Novel Weekly either, and had successfully found publication announcements for the first two volumes of The Great Pirate Angelica series, Fountain of Youth and Ghost Empire.

It seems Miss Magician of the Tarot Club, the famous novelist, enthusiastic literary agent, and dear friend of the Abraham Family, Ms. Fors Wall, really has published those novels in Intis... Angel chuckled, unconcerned that the popularity of these fictional novels might give her a strange reputation.

Anyway, apart from the Tarot Club members and Klein, no one knows the connection between my current self and Angelica Zaki. Leaving a few legends about the "Golden Queen" who appears from time to time will also help solidify that identity and distinguish her from "Angel." At most, once all her novels are published, I'll go ask her for some royalties. I doubt she'll dare refuse... At that thought, Angel couldn't help calculating her potential profits, the corners of her mouth gradually lifting.

With these thoughts in mind, she had even visited District 8 before leaving Trier, hoping to find Fors and return to Backlund with her.

Unfortunately, both attempts at divination had failed. Angel could only convince herself that the great novelist probably intended to stay a