Angel asked, "Lydia will be attending the tea party too?"
Gloria nodded, a cold smile curling at the corner of her lips. "Naturally. It's just that the schemes in her heart probably won't come to fruition this time."
"Schemes?" Angel asked in confusion. "Is Lydia planning to do something at this tea party?"
"I don't know about that," Gloria said. "But when the last tea party ended, she made a grand show of herself in front of many witches, all so she could become the protagonist at this tea party."
The protagonist? What exactly did you witches do at tea parties? Put on a play?
Angel grumbled inwardly, but his expression remained utterly serious.
"We all knew at the time that Lydia did this because she had an excellent relationship with Mirror Princess of your Savage Cave. This time, the tea party just happened to be held at Savage Cave, so she must have wanted to borrow Mirror Princess's influence." Gloria gave a derisive snort at this point. "Unfortunately, her calculations were sound, but she overlooked the variables of reality."
Hearing this, Angel roughly understood what Gloria meant.
Mirror Princess had fallen into slumber, and no one knew when she would awaken. Under such circumstances, Lydia naturally could not borrow Mirror Princess's influence. That was why Gloria said her schemes could not be realized.
Angel did not pick up on Gloria's words, because he did not know what to say either. Still, from one spot one could glimpse the whole leopard; from Gloria's account, he could already faintly sense the atmosphere of intrigue and deception surrounding the tea party... Perhaps all he could say was: Tree Spirit Lord, you've worked hard.
After bidding Gloria farewell, Angel headed toward the manor.
He had originally planned to fly straight back to his