"..."
"What? You let that guy get away."
"That utterly unremarkable fellow, barely even at the Fifth Stage, broke free of his Source Material shackles and escaped while you weren't paying attention?"
They cleaned up the battlefield at Ying Shan and dealt with the slaves underground.
When the Messengers heard that someone else had intervened on the battlefield and secretly freed the slaves, they had even regretted being unable to meet such a righteous person.
But once everything was over,
what awaited them was shocking "bad news."
Eris followed Alvitte back to the depression. They found several young Awakened left guarding the carriage, but the prisoner they had been escorting was nowhere to be seen.
—Linsey had escaped!
After the earlier battle, the Messenger had already come to regard Alvitte and Xiao Bei as companions to whom he could entrust his life.
Now, the prisoner his companions had been escorting had vanished.
Even Eris himself was worried for them.
What the Messenger failed to notice, however, was that when he said, "utterly unremarkable, barely even at the Fifth Stage," Alvitte's brow twitched, as though she had heard an astonishing statement that was hard to endure.
The Messenger continued:
"This won't do. A prisoner escaping could affect your activities in the City of Law."
"No, we must find him."
"Alvitte, I—"
Before the Messenger could finish, Alvitte shook her head at him.
"Our most urgent task is to deliver these young people to the Royal City. After all, the future of these young people is far more important than an escaped criminal."
The Messenger grabbed the little parrot by its wings and pulled it down from his shoulder.
"Alvitte, I'm skilled in nature-sensing arts, and I also have animal companions to help with the search."
Alvitte's tone remained calm.
Yet her