With an elegant, proper smile on her face, Rita—whose snow-white skin between her black gloves and sleeves looked especially pale beneath the sunlight—took on the task of speaking with the other party:
"It seems you are the one responsible for receiving Mr. Gwen and me this time?"
Gwen showed no unusual reaction to the scene before him, merely returning her smile—
Australia had once been a British penal colony, and it was also where Schicksal had exiled its own early failures. After Otto crushed the old forces within the Castle Council with a single finger, most of them had been thrown here.
Compared to a place like the Far East, which Otto could casually give Theresa as a toy, Australia was practically a case of "a small temple full of troublesome spirits, a shallow pond packed with old turtles." Though its strength was nothing special under Otto's suppression, it had far more schemes and disturbances than Schicksal Headquarters, which Otto completely controlled.
Before departing on this mission, Gwen had received detailed information on the Australian branch, but a single report was far from enough for him to gain a thorough understanding of its complicated personnel structure.
Rita, on the other hand, was a professional at handling such matters.
Thus, Gwen was more than happy to let Rita deal with these complicated interpersonal relationships.
And Rita did not disappoint Gwen. She deflected every veiled barb in the words of Ms. Merlin, whose great-grandfather had held an important seat in the Castle Council.
Seeing this, Merlin could only temporarily set aside certain thoughts and lead the two of them into the main base of Schicksal's Australian branch.
Half an hour later, as Merlin introduced the Australian branch, the somewhat unpleasant atmosphere between the three gradually eased.
Seeing the atmosphere relax somewhat, Merlin