"Meow!"
The Silver Wolf running among the gravestones ultimately failed to return to that stone house. Shade had left while maintaining his Transformation Spell, so when he burst out through the bedroom door of Room Two, he was naturally still in Silver Wolf form.
Little Mia immediately came up to greet him with meows, but before she could leap in front of the Silver Wolf, Maid, who had been waiting here for three seconds, smiled and picked up the beautiful wolf.
Shade transformed back into human form in her arms, and Tifa became the one affectionately wrapping her arms around his neck.
After Maid's smiling eyes met Shade's for a moment, she lightly kissed his cheek again—this was a good way to avoid leaving too strong a perfume scent behind.
"Welcome back, Shade."
"Meow!"
The cat only wanted to know when breakfast would be served.
Breakfast began soon enough, though there was one more person at the table than expected: Sylvia, who had hurried over to collect her "toll." She had said yesterday that she would come early, but Shade had not expected her to show up just after seven.
The maids always prepared extra breakfast anyway, so Sylvia had food even after arriving. While they ate, Shade briefly described what he had seen in the Gravestone Wasteland.
The witches and Luvia were all high-level/high-ring now, and no gods had formally appeared in the story yet, so he did not need to avoid any details.
They had all heard Shade mention Theresa before. This was already the third time Shade had encountered her in the past, so the girls were not surprised. As for the God of Graves known as the "Bone King," the ladies had naturally heard of him, but this was the first time any of them had