The golden afterglow resonated with the Tri-Color Moonlight behind Shade. He waited several seconds without receiving any response from behind him, so his left hand behind his back quickly waved at them. Only then did the three shocked women snap out of it and remember what they were supposed to do.
Miss Olanord raised her hand first, followed by the red-haired and black-haired Sorceresses, who placed their hands on Shade's shoulders. The ladies pressed their palms against those golden cracks. Each was curious about what they were, yet instinctively none dared to use their senses to touch that sacred radiance.
The moonlight of the three merged together without obstruction. The Demigod Witch stood directly behind him, while the Thirteenth Ring Sorceresses stood behind him to his left and right. As the whistle and resounding bells rang out once more beneath the moon, the Demigod Witch's Thirteenth Order Golden Staircase extended from behind Shade, whose entire body bore golden embers, toward the starry sky. The two Sorceresses' Thirteenth Rings of Fate revolved on either side of the staircase.
At some point, the night wind had completely stilled, and the rustling of the giant tree canopies beyond the clearing had vanished into the long night. The instant the Red Moon, Yellow Moon, and Silver Moon—the Tri-Color Moonlight—converged behind Shade, amid the earth's hum, a towering Clock Tower rose from the ground and stood crookedly behind them:
"Mystic Lock Tower Lovers!"
Before the Clock Tower's dial, gentle moonlight enveloped the four of them, and the three women smiled gently as well. The pink crystalline short knife first appeared in the Demigod Witch's left hand. Gazing at the figure before her, she thrust the short knife into her own chest:
"Moon is you, and I am your Moon as well."
Her figure turned into