Wisteria petals drifted down outside the window with the breeze, scattering a patchwork of color across the ground.
Antanas counted the people on her fingers.
"Did Talia come in with Lanchi too?"
She could never figure out why one person always seemed unaccounted for.
Even after excluding the five who entered on their side and Lanchi, Tata, and Cat Boss who entered on Lanchi's side, there still weren't enough people.
"I think so."
Planai muttered perfunctorily.
"If you say so, then it's usually true..."
Antanas guessed that Planai had probably triggered the Thousand-Mile Eye again and seen a fragment of this Shadow World.
Divination was considered the noblest attribute because diviners could always obtain information that was far ahead of the present.
As long as Planai didn't have an episode, he was also a cheat in the Shadow World.
To prevent the secrets of heaven from leaking out and triggering a chain reaction that would affect the future they saw and the best decisions for dealing with it, he would usually choose to speak in riddles.
That made the people around him anxious. They even wanted to read the truth from his mind.
"Planai, tell me the truth. Did you see something even more dangerous, which is why you didn't dare go to Purgatory City with Hughberlian and instead chose to become the big brother who brings everyone to victory?"
Antanas narrowed her eyes as she studied Planai.
A few days ago, when they watched the Empire's opera performance in Nistero City, Thuringen Province, Planai had suddenly disappeared.
Antanas had already grown suspicious of him then.
"No. How could that be?"
Planai said without emotion.
"Isn't it just that Hughberlian might run into Lanchi and Talia? What's dangerous about that?"
Sinora added from the side.
"Uh."
Antanas felt that made