Since Kindel's corpse could be obtained tonight, the Dragon Hunting Plan was officially scheduled for midnight between this Wednesday and Thursday.
Elf Girl remained in the nest to decipher the Tree Hollow. Sivie and Sylvia were responsible for protecting her there, while Flora took the intelligence to communicate with The Church, ensuring they could receive support from the Church's forces tonight.
With a way to lure out that dragon beast and enough strength to defeat it, everything seemed to be arranged. Even so, the young ladies aboard the Radiance Messenger still prepared with great caution.
After Shade returned from the woods at noon, he had originally planned to do nothing more that day, checking the books he had acquired while waiting for midnight. But at two in the afternoon, he met Margaret, who had come secretly to visit him at the inn.
Her Royal Highness the Princess wore a coarse dress that only common girls would wear. Upon seeing Shade, she hugged him first:
"I'm truly sorry. After so long, I still haven't finished dealing with the work in hand."
"You should say that to Vanessa. No, you still shouldn't go see her for now. No, no, don't look so sad. Vanessa doesn't hate you."
The shrunken witch definitely did not want to see her apprentice right now:
"But why are you here? Did something happen?"
"I received the information you passed along about Kindel, the Northern Kingdom spy. It said the illegitimate son was one of a pair of twins. It really frightened me too."
Margaret looked deeply troubled:
"Although it didn't describe that child's features, in a small city with such a limited population, if a neighboring family had twins, it would definitely become the talk of the whole district. I searched through records based on that clue