After listening to Abruie's account, Angel finally understood the full course of events.
Old Potter's urgent intelligence concerned a guide from Savage Cave.
After accepting a guidance mission, this guide had traveled overseas in search of gifted individuals. Later, she returned to the continent and planned to cross the Guman Kingdom to see whether there were any other gifted individuals in the Alya Duchy.
Unexpectedly, near Princess Town in the Guman Kingdom, the guide found an unconscious young boy covered in injuries.
The guide rescued the boy and, after testing him, discovered that he too was gifted.
However, the boy seemed to be burdened by some unspoken worry. Though he agreed to follow the guide into the Wizarding World, he remained silent all the time, and the furrow between his brows never eased.
The guide assumed he was merely a youth troubled by sorrow and did not question him. Upon learning that he was an orphan, she simply took him along with her.
When they passed through Princess Town, the guide planned to stay the night at Old Potter's place.
Yet not long after they entered Princess Town, trouble struck.
The guide was besieged by a squad of royal knights from the Guman Kingdom. Though the Guman King's lackeys were not especially powerful, there were too many of them. The guide was only an apprentice herself, and she was ultimately captured.
In truth, the guide was much stronger than Abruie. If she had truly wanted to flee at the time, the knights might not have been able to stop her. But she had not been alone. Behind her were gifted individuals she had found from all over, including, it seemed, one who was very close to her. That was why she had not abandoned them during the siege, and was