"Yes!"
Shade suppressed the delight in his heart and stared at the stone box in his hands.
"In other words, the grave robbers I'm looking for actually stole burial objects from the Edwards Family. That Low-Ring Arcanist knew those bones were unusual, but he failed to discover what they truly were. Through an introduction, he sold them to the Watsont family in Randall River Valley, who wanted to oppose Stone Osenfott."
The clues had completely connected, while the path forward split into two directions.
On one hand, though it was unknown whether the first-generation lord, Klein Edwards, knew what those finger bones were, since they had been found in the tomb of the second generation's eldest daughter, perhaps Klein himself—or even the burial objects of other Edwards Family members—also possessed them. On the other hand, the grave robbers who had stolen those burial objects might still have things related to the remains of the Deathbringer Angel, only without realizing it.
Therefore, finding those grave robbers and asking what exactly had happened when they entered this place became even more necessary.
"Your expression is strange."
The brown-haired lady said this. Shade looked up at her, his eyes practically shining.
"Do you remember the grave robbers I mentioned in Mikella Blast Furnace City during the day?"
Apothecary Miss nodded.
"Of course I remember. It was this group?"
"Yes. What this stone box once contained was what I encountered elsewhere. It seems we have to find those grave robbers. I need to know what exactly they encountered. We haven't seen any souls now, but perhaps they encountered them back then."
After saying that, he realized that the Angel Finger Bones Priest Augustus had already taken away had been burial objects belonging to the ancestors of the lady before him.
"Well, that thing..."
"It's