"How are the Church and Academy preparations coming along?"
"No matter how we prepare, it's impossible to make everything perfect. But at the very least, we've reached the most basic level needed to begin the war. I imagine the Church doesn't want to delay any longer either. The successive appearances of the Doomsday Rift and the Mad Moon have already shown that time is not on our side."
Shade strongly agreed with Miss Danist, but he did not make a decision immediately. Instead, he turned to Grace and Helen.
"How did last night's investigation go?"
While Shade had gone out to the "Time Transfer Station" last night, the sisters had accompanied Margaret to "visit" the Bennett Family, hoping to determine how the royal illegitimate son had become the Bennett Family's youngest son.
After learning of the Bennett Family's inherited "mission" in 1821 yesterday, Shade had once believed that this mission could only be passed down through male descendants. That was why Mr. Bennett, who had fathered four daughters in a row, had wanted to acquire a son for himself.
But that was not the truth.
When the "Mad Moon" appeared last night, the Red Butterfly Young Ladies and Margaret, along with Miss Bethany's ghost, had been inside the Bennett Family residence. The sudden catastrophe had naturally affected their mission, but Grace and Helen had lived for so many years and were experienced enough to ultimately bring back an answer.
"We searched the boy's memories. His memories had been altered by a powerful force. Fortunately, with the bond between the ghost called Ashley Bethany and the boy—a bond belonging to twins—we barely managed to reconstruct his surface memories.
"After the siblings were separated in an accident all those years ago, the boy had stumbled into the Time Transfer Station, which opened