"When Sister Devlin and I visited the Goddess in the Lake, she said that the Pantanar Area was more dangerous than Middlesburg."
Supporting Luvia, Shade looked at Iluna.
"Although we know it may already be too late to stop their plan in advance at the Voodoo Society's headquarters, you still need to inform the Church about this. At the very least, they must prepare for the unsealing of the evil thing, learn what our opponent is, what weaknesses it has, and how to seal it away again. Legenes Prisha must have had a reason for choosing the Pantanar Area as the ritual site. His ritual is very likely to cause that evil thing to return to the Material World."
Iluna nodded again.
"You be careful too. The epic has begun once more."
Iluna left very quickly. On Wednesday night, the Steam Airship dispatched by the Church silently carried her south. And Princess Margaret, Old John, and Iluna were not the only ones leaving the area. On Wednesday, Luvia had wanted to investigate the Truth Society's movements further, but on Thursday she told Shade that the Truth Society also seemed to be preparing to withdraw from the area. Miss Pawo no longer appeared under the identity of "Miss Witte."
The city that had become lively due to Princess Margaret's visit seemed to calm down all at once after her departure. With the year drawing to a close, everyone had matters to handle. No one would realize that a disaster was about to occur farther south.
Probably everyone was still on the road. After going to Middlesburg to inform Grandma Cassandra and Sister Devlin, Shade spent all of Thursday dealing with his affairs in Tobesk, so that he could focus entirely on the matter of the Chosen Ones afterward.
The first thing