With the Witches present, Mr. Nelson naturally shrank back and kept quiet. Ms. Brooke gave a brief introduction:
"She appeared after you left. Like me, she wants to take a boat and leave this place forever. That man over there and I managed to calm her down, but if you want to help her too, we'll probably need to think of something later."
"Did she come here because she lost someone important as well?"
Shade asked with a frown:
"If it's for the same reason, then she can set out with us later. We're going into death to look for people anyway. Finding one is the same as finding two."
As he spoke, he removed the Mithril Blindfold clipped around his arm:
"Look, I brought this too."
He lightly tapped the cat's little head with the warm Mithril, telling it not to fidget. But the moment Ms. Brooke saw the blindfold, she covered her mouth, her eyes reddening:
"Yes, I know this. This is the Inheritance of the Fire-Holding Sister. With this, Elder Sister won't refuse to come out and see me."
However, the reason that Young Girl had come here was different from both Mr. Nelson's and Ms. Brooke's:
"H-hello, sir... or madam. I... I made a terrible mistake."
She spoke in a trembling voice. She did not even dare ask whether Shade was male or female. That was something only powerful Witches dared to do:
"My name is Peggy McConaughey. My Teacher used a very dangerous ritual to enter Slumber in order to advance. If she woke up fifty years later, she would be able to advance to the Twelfth Order. She hid herself in a Hidden Space and gave me the only key, asking me to wake her fifty years later. But I shattered the key."
"Ah,