"Those two Gargoyles you warned about are lying down now. I'd meant to knock them out like that old woman on the third floor, but I didn't expect them to be so fragile."
The moment Angel initiated the conversation, Dox noticed it. Before Angel could say anything, Dox had already rambled on at length.
The Gargoyles were lying down? That was obviously Dox's way of putting it. Angel did not need to guess to know that the two Gargoyles had already shattered into countless pieces.
"Oh, right. Thanks for that poker card. Otherwise, getting through this trap corridor would have been rather troublesome for me."
Angel: "...You know poker?"
Dox: "Of course. If you'd gone into Cross Tavern earlier, you would have seen at least ten tables of people playing cards. They'd probably have invited you to join a round too."
Angel fell silent for a moment. He had originally wanted to ask about Princess Castle, but after hearing Dox's words, he could not help asking, "How did poker cards make their way to Sandworm Market?"
Sandworm Market, at least in Angel's impression, was a very remote Wizard Market. It was surrounded by vast deserts, and not many people went there.
Yet even in such a remote place, poker had already become popular? It had not even been long since he had taught poker to Shali.
"Oh, that came over from Mesomia. I heard that a Magician put on a grand performance there at the very beginning. I don't know what the performance was, but poker cards started spreading from then on." Dox continued, "Apparently, that Magician was a woman who was traveling through different countries and putting on magic shows."
Angel: ...All right, he understood.
That Magician touring the continent had to be Shali, or at least someone closely