The Sun and Moon Wizards logged on.
They had logged off on the second floor of the Pointed Hat Magic Workshop, so naturally, that was where they reappeared.
The moment they logged on, they sensed something off about the atmosphere in the workshop.
Glaimo, Ligota, Blanche, Luigi, even Juanjuan... all of them radiated a strange, feverish excitement.
It was as if the whole group had been given a shot of adrenaline.
The Sun and Moon Wizards exchanged a glance and saw the same confusion in each other's eyes.
They had only been offline for a little over an hour, hadn't they? How did everything feel so different? Even Juanjuan seemed a little off.
They headed toward Juanjuan. As they passed Glaimo and Ligota, hushed voices reached their ears—
"If you can stay manifested, maybe you can show yourself to everyone right now... I need to give my old friends a heads-up. When the time comes, just tell them you've spent the past few years studying abroad!"
"Brother, don't get so excited... Thirteen hundred points won't be easy to save up, and we'd need Miss Blanche's help to maintain it. That's too much trouble. I can live here, really."
"You can, but don't you want to see your old friends? Remember Annie? Every time she comes to Night Mountain to visit me, she goes to your piano room and plays the songs you wrote together."
"And Prang, the butler, never mentions your name in front of me because he doesn't want to upset me. But I've overheard him talking about you to Aunt Sim more than once, hoping he'll see you again someday. After all, the two of them watched you grow up."
"But..."
"No more buts. We'll figure out the points together. Hasn't that kid Uriel already set off to