"The tombstone was huge, made from Black Principle Sacrificial Stone, and extremely heavy. Given the size of the animals already living in the forest, it was absolutely impossible for them to have carried the tombstone away."
For that reason, Edward was certain that the tombstone had been taken away by someone.
But who had taken it?
Edward did not know. At first, though, he had wondered whether the Evil Spirit Knight had secretly taken it away.
After all, throughout the entire castle, the Evil Spirit Knight's movements were the hardest to fathom.
But Edward quickly dismissed that guess, because several dozen meters from the pit where the tombstone had stood, he found several footprints in a slightly muddy patch of wetland.
Upon inspection, the footprints were fresh, left only recently.
Moreover, judging by the types of footprints, there had been at least five people.
If the Evil Spirit Knight had truly wanted to take away the tombstone, he would not have needed that many people. Besides, the footprints were flat-soled, completely unlike the soles of the Evil Spirit Knight's armored boots.
Thus, Edward ruled out the Evil Spirit Knight.
But if it had not been the Evil Spirit Knight, who were those five extra people? And where had they come from?
Angel: "Did you find an answer?"
Edward shook his head. "No. But personally, I suspect that whoever took away the tombstone and the dead man's rope was not an outsider."
Because if an outsider came, someone like Xiluda, everyone would receive an inexplicable notification the moment they arrived at the castle, indicating that an outsider had entered.
That notification was the same as the prompts they received when claiming and playing a role. They were facts conveyed to them by an unknown existence, or unknown rules.
During that period,