After sighing, Shade finally began taking stock of everything he had gained after the second key vanished.
Aside from unexpectedly obtaining the Tree's Kiss Spirit Rune and learning the puzzling truth about the Time Key, Miss Feliana had also said that if she remembered Shade, she would leave him a gift.
Unfortunately, Shade had been enrolled for a month and a half without discovering anything. Perhaps Miss Feliana had forgotten him, or perhaps the gift was in Saint Byron's castle and could only be obtained once he truly arrived at the Academy.
However, Miss Feliana's notebook had successfully been brought by Shade into the present era. Though its pages had yellowed somewhat after coming from the past, it did not affect readability. Shade stood by the window and flipped through the notebook, only to unexpectedly discover that small portions of it had become blank. The notebook, which the Witch had originally filled with meticulous writing, now contained intermittent blank passages, though they probably made up only a tenth of the whole.
"Come to think of it, this is the first time I've obtained such a large amount of knowledge from the past."
Though Father of Infinite Tree had departed, Shade truly felt Its presence at every moment.
Lowering his head to look at the remaining leaf, Shade reasoned that since the previous one had contained the Space Stabilization Aura Thaumaturgy, this leaf must represent the truth of a piece of history—the Witches War at the end of the Fifth Epoch.
After some thought, Shade closed his left eye and held the leaf before his right.
The cat raised its head and watched him curiously.
Shade saw flickering shadows of light, followed by a narrow brick corridor.
White ash covered the floor. Two women in gorgeous long dresses walked through the