The latest news heard in the teahouse was related to the disasters caused by the heavy snow.
About half an hour earlier, a train from the north had arrived twenty full hours late. The train had encountered an avalanche midway through its journey, leaving an entire carriage of passengers stranded when the tracks were buried and it could no longer proceed.
And while the train had been forced to stop, a series of horrifying incidents had taken place in its first-class carriage. They involved cultists, illegal organizations, and brutal murder, but fortunately, the matter had been resolved by an unidentified Detective in the first-class carriage.
Sister Devlin was somewhat concerned about the matter, so she had her "servant"—who was actually one of the Witch Followers the Council had arranged in advance to wait locally and receive the two Witches—investigate its cause.
The young girl in the maid's dress returned soon afterward. She had not discovered exactly what had happened on the train, but she had heard that the train had been transporting a Relic. Because of the delay, the Creation Church, which had been responsible for receiving the Relic, had no choice but to hastily arrange for an antique shop owner and his apprentice to collect it. The pair had lost the Relic, causing the thief to die an unfortunate death. The alley where the murder had occurred was now sealed off.
"So, this blizzard will change many people's fates. Two Ring Arcanists had a Relic stolen by an ordinary person. The Church's peripheral clerical staff really are careless."
Shade said with a smile. Sitting in the warm teahouse, he looked through the window at the heavy snow outside. He knew what snowfall on this scale meant in this era. For most people, this winter would be quite difficult to