Sno had just begun preparing the ritual after returning from The Tarot Club when Bernadette, having sensed something unusual aboard the ship, immediately appeared. Her cool voice came with her:
"You're planning to set up a ritual on the ship? We still have at least a day's journey before reaching our destination."
Seeing the strange expression on her face, Sno did not answer at once. Instead, he leisurely opened the Sacrifice Gate and took out ritual items such as candles, Essential Oil, and Pure Dew. As he carved the Fool's symbol onto them, he spoke as if talking to himself:
"Although there are three ways to rescue Roselle, they are essentially the same. One person needs to provide the main force, while the other two offer a certain degree of assistance. I'm merely making preliminary preparations."
"Do you need my help?"
Bernadette realized that she seemed to have been too anxious. She forcibly suppressed her somewhat out-of-control emotions and returned herself to a calm state.
Sno merely shook his head. Lighting the candles, he said:
"No need to trouble yourself. Just weaken the Dawn's mystical shielding a little for the time being. After all, I don't want the power I borrowed with such difficulty to be wasted on piercing its defenses."
"No problem." Bernadette did not suspect anything. As starlike radiance flickered in her eyes, the hazy mist that had always enveloped the Dawn dispersed—she had directly shut down every layer of mystical defense.
Traveling through the dangerous waters of the Fog Sea without defenses was obviously extremely risky. However, as a ghost ship carrying an Angel and a King of Angel, Bernadette was quite confident in its safety.
The only reason she had kept the defenses activated was to avoid trouble.
Sno was naturally pleased by this. He symbolically