"Surely it isn't another tree hollow, is it?"
Seated alone on a small sofa, Galina offered a reasonable guess, though no one could be certain.
Luvia thought for a moment, then held out her hand to Shade:
"Lend me your Dice of Destiny for a moment. I'll use numerological divination to try to determine its age."
The dice were handed to Luvia. She was not especially skilled at "numerological divination," but determining age was a very basic divination technique. After casually rolling the dice a few times, Luvia gave the answer: "One hundred and twenty-eight years old."
This matched the age Emilia had learned from Unicorn Ellie. A unicorn was considered an adult at one hundred years old, so it had indeed only recently reached adulthood.
Luvia then tried to divine the unicorn's birth date, but failed even with the aid of the relic's power. Finally, she tried to divine the "Ice and Snow Castle" mentioned by the unicorn, but this time, something unexpected happened.
The Obsidian Pendulum pendant guided Luvia to select letters from today's newspaper. If the divination yielded a result, those selected letters would form complete words, or even a sentence.
But just as she had selected two letters, a heavy malice suddenly surged from the newspaper. Before anyone else could react, the cat that had been lazily sprawled across Shade's lap sprang to its feet with a "Meow~!" Then Shade pointed forward with one finger, and silver flames ignited the newspaper.
In only a few seconds, it burned so thoroughly that not even ashes remained. Yet the antique tea table beneath it suffered no damage at all.
Galina frowned and asked Shade:
"A demon?"
"Yes, the power of a demon. That demon seemed to still be lurking within the Ice and Snow Castle, so the moment