The music and clamor of the banquet drifted up from below. The dining room itself was not quiet either. Although only Shade and Miss Aurora were seated for dinner, there were more than twenty servants in the room, and more remarkably, every maid had something to do.
"The second Chosen One is extremely dangerous."
"But you were still able to hunt him down."
Shade offered a modest bit of praise.
"Actually, the most dangerous part of this incident was not him, but the suicidal fishman. A suicidal Ring Arcanist."
The witch shook her head with deep emotion, and Shade asked curiously:
"What happens when a Ring Arcanist commits suicide?"
Among Saint Byron's requirements for Correspondence Students, not going to the New Continent was merely a restriction for students, whereas not committing suicide was common sense for all Ring Arcanists.
"Reversal."
The witch's answer was simple.
"What does that mean?"
"A reversal between you and Another Me. Though 'Another Me' sounds dangerous, they are us. And suicide is the only way to make Another Me lose control. The two reverse. The process of a soul being split apart, the inner becoming outer and the outer becoming inner, is extraordinarily painful, so ordinary people would never do this. But once the reversal succeeds after suicide, it is equivalent to a Ring Arcanist who has lost control while fully possessing the power of the Words of Sublimation."
Shade sucked in a breath.
"That fishman reversed too?"
He had not seen anything unusual after the other party blew himself up last night.
"Of course not. Its soul was taken away directly by the god."
Miss Aurora smiled.
"A reversed soul is a malformed soul, more reviled even than the soul of a faithless person. That is why ordinary people would never do such a