The "Petrification" Charm

"Tsk, it's a little too sweet. They could add some chocolate to balance it out."

From beyond the mirror, a clear but slightly childish voice came from the stroller, bluntly judging the expensive ice cream Angel had bought and carried halfway across the city to put in his—or rather, his mother's—mouth.

"I'll remember that next time," Angel replied, suppressing a smile. Then she got to the point. "I'm back from Trier. The whole trip was complicated, but I was fairly lucky."

"I can see you gained a great deal. Because of that, though, your fate has shifted somewhat."

The Snake of Fate spoke slowly. The stroller turned slightly, bringing the child inside to face Angel. She felt a gaze pass through the mirror and look straight through her.

A shift in fate... I remember he said something similar to Klein after we encountered Adam, that King of Angels, on our island trip... Angel thought for a moment, then asked nervously:

"Can you tell what caused it?"

As she asked, her mind raced through the Mirror People who had been captured, Clarice the Black Witch at the Red House Cafe, Sirio Sauron the Iron-Blooded Knight who had died at her hands, Bornova Gustav, who had narrowly escaped a trap because she had stumbled into it first, and the new rune she had discovered in Fourth Epoch Trier.

After turning it over in her mind, only Bornova, an angel, or the rune connected to the corruption of Fourth Epoch Trier seemed capable of affecting her fate. And she leaned toward...

"Could it be that..."

She began to press him, but before she could finish, Will Auceptin burst into tears inside the stroller, cutting off the rest of her question.

From their previous conversation, Angel judged that the angel, who was acutely sensitive