The Werewolf Youth began telling Shirou about the situation inside the Fae Domain.
The flow of time and space had been repeatedly cycling within the dense fog since last night.
Beowulf had tried countless times to kill the witch in the fog, but he still could not break through this dense fog.
Just as the nursery rhyme hummed by Meinst had described, this was a forest that no one could leave once they entered.
"The Fae Domain must follow some kind of 'rule'... Beo, do you know what triggered the reset of time and space?"
Shirou asked, "Even an endlessly repeating cycle should have one or more switches. Once touched, they send time back to the beginning. Beo, do you know what that is?"
"Reset? Starting point? Switch? What are you talking about, Shirou? I don't understand any of it."
Beowulf said innocently, "I've never touched any switch!
"I once accidentally triggered a fire alarm at a hotel by fiddling with the switches. After Touko gave me a good scolding, I never touched those things again!
This guy's beyond saving... Shirou sighed helplessly.
Seeing the red-haired youth looking dejected, Beowulf hurriedly said, "I think I remember now!"
"What?" Shirou asked without much hope.
The Werewolf Youth said, "Every time something strange happens, it seems to start after I kill the girl in the fog."
Shirou frowned.
So the flow of time and space inside the Fae Domain really is reset only after the domain's master is killed?
The special rule governing the reset of time and space was "death"—
Simple and easy to understand, but extremely difficult to overcome.
If they did not eliminate the domain's master, she would summon monsters without end.
But if they killed the domain's master, the flow of time and space inside the domain would