"Miss Maze, in that memory, were you living here as a student or as a teacher?"
The Gray Wolf Witch asked as well. Though no one had liked her much at first because of her race, they were getting along very well now.
Miss Maze thought for a moment.
"It's hard to describe. Sometimes I was a teacher, and sometimes I was a student. I remember standing at the lectern teaching divination, which is why I'm so familiar with this tower. But at other times, I was a student sitting on a soft cushion and listening to an old professor lecture, with a notebook in my hands."
The troubled Green Dragon maid casually remarked:
"Perhaps the order of your memories is simply wrong. You studied here, then stayed behind after graduating to continue teaching, according to the Cult's traditions."
Miss Maze slowly nodded. After hesitating for a moment, she asked the others:
"Do you think I'm really a normal person?"
No one answered that question.
Aside from Miss Maze herself, only Emilia had never heard Shade say that he thought something was wrong with this Witch. The innocent little elf therefore asked:
"Do you think you're a ghost?"
The Witch nodded and looked down at the hands holding her bowl.
"Or perhaps there's another soul inside my body, and she guided me here."
The others did not know what to say. Shade comforted her instead:
"Once we meet that god, you can ask Them for help. Gods protect those who believe in Them."
He immediately changed the subject.
"By the way, since you entered this tower, why didn't you go to the top floor? Why did you camp on the second-to-last floor instead?"
"The door leading to the top floor is locked. It requires a key and the incantation we