"Trisha!"
Olga Marie lunged toward Trisha.
After Dr. Heartless left, whether deliberately or because their restraints had been released, the other missing people all "slid" out through the passage Dr. Heartless had taken.
"Excellent, now the All-Seeing Eyes of the Gods have been recovered too~"
At this point, Miss Wand put away the other All-Seeing Eyes of the Gods as well.
An arrow pierced the sky and destroyed the Outer God.
"Are you leaving?"
The last to notice Irena was Hishiri Adashino.
"A traveler can't stay in one place forever, can they? I've already been here far too long." Irena blinked. "But I might come back someday."
"...I see."
"Ah, right."
Irena waved at Miss Wand.
Miss Wand put away the All-Seeing Eyes of the Gods, then turned back into a wand.
Then Irena picked up the wand and smiled faintly.
At this moment, time reversed for the scorched ashes.
Afterward, a scrap of red cloth gradually appeared as well.
This was Iskandar's Holy Relic.
"Please return it to my teacher for me." Irena smiled.
"You won't say goodbye in person?" Hishiri Adashino said. "I'm an outsider, after all."
"I might come back someday. If I say goodbye now—wouldn't it be awkward afterward? Besides, there are still some things I need to deal with. Things outside sometimes need to be cleaned up out there, too. It's for your own good." Irena waved her hand and mounted her broom. "I've restored everyone who was still alive. You only need to keep moving forward to leave this fairytale world."
"I say..." Hishiri Adashino realized something. "You actually understand magecraft very well... don't you?"
"Of course. The tricks of performing magic through misdirection are easy enough to understand, right~?"
The girl rode her broom along the path of the fairytale, leaving the crowd