Holy Silver Vine Arena, second floor.
The internal office area, the executive director's office.
"We'll go talk to Countess Rosalinda about extracting the two paintings we made, then we'll go find Nigel."
Lanchi pressed down on the doorknob and spoke to Talia beside him.
"No problem."
Talia held Little Black Cat in her arms as she replied.
She was quite satisfied with what they had gained today. She had even unexpectedly become a Platinum Tier Card Maker. Now, even if Hugh Treasure went outside, she could boast that her aunt was an impressive and successful professional.
He opened the door.
It was a spacious office of roughly a hundred square meters. The floor was made from oak trees over a century old, pieced together into patterns in the Bosen style. On the right was a redwood desk about two meters in diameter, with an antique oil lamp forged from pure brass resting on its timeworn sandalwood surface. Yet aside from several kraft-paper documents awaiting approval, no one was sitting there.
"Lanchi, Tata, you're here."
Rosalinda greeted them from the sofa in the office's lounge area, waving for them to come over and sit.
"I prepared some cheese coconut pastries!"
Beside a floor-standing reading lamp with a stained-glass lampshade, two very different women sat on the sofa.
Rosalinda was still wearing that burgundy work outfit with its exquisite tailoring.
The woman who seemed to have been speaking with her just now, however, looked younger. Her silvery-white hair fell smoothly to her waist like a waterfall.
"Who is this?"
Lanchi walked over with Tata and sat down before asking Rosalinda.
"My friend, Aitio. She also came to watch the final round of the Platinum Tier Card Maker Exam today. As a former champion of the Holy Silver Vine Arena, she now holds