Nis casually traced a symbol through the air.
A force field, nearly invisible to the naked eye, enveloped the entire pharmacy.
Lunke's miserable, suppressed cries were immediately shut out.
"It's better not to have background music when discussing serious matters, especially when the music isn't that pleasant." Nis shrugged. "Screams—hysterical venting—is more to my taste, especially the wails of the undead. This sort of cry, trying to restrain itself while enduring it all, lacks a certain flavor. And it's a man's roar, too."
Angel: ...Only you would treat screams as background music.
With the disturbance from outside gone, everyone finally began discussing the serious matter.
"Back in the Dream Wilderness, many things were never fully clarified. Tell us now. What did you do, and what caused the current outcome?" Angel looked at Nausicaa.
Nausicaa nodded and began with the moment she had made up her mind in Sky Mechanical City.
Reynolds occasionally added further details along the way.
Time slowly passed amid her account.
Through her narration, all the details Reynolds had previously omitted were filled in.
Nausicaa had indeed followed Reynolds to this laboratory, where he had been imprisoned from childhood to adulthood, because of the Night Butterfly Witch's hand.
The reason Nausicaa had set her sights on the Night Butterfly Witch's hand was because Reynolds had given her a detailed introduction to the "Anomalous Object" within that arm.
So-called Anomalous Objects were unknown and unusual things exchanged through sacrificial rituals with a certain faction in Quest World. These Anomalous Objects could be infused into organs and, through certain special methods, cause extraordinary organs to undergo transformation.
According to Reynolds, the Night Butterfly Witch's arm had been the organ that contained the most Anomalous Objects and possessed the highest spirituality value during that large-scale sacrificial ritual more than a