"Should I reveal myself now and expose them?"
The Time Great Witch, who knew everything, gazed at the starry sky and asked herself. Then, almost subconsciously, she raised a hand to touch the coat still draped over her shoulders. She had not returned it to Shade when she left earlier.
As she was considering it, greetings rose from below. Shade had awakened. Adele Isabella, secretly annoyed, listened with a cold expression as he spoke with everyone and solemnly apologized to Claire. After confirming that everyone was safe, Shade's first request was:
"Luvia, help me divine Miss Sabelle's whereabouts. I promised to bring her out alive. That maid never explained her current situation clearly, and I want to know how she is now."
"Delia A. Sabelle?"
Luvia confirmed the name with Shade, and Shade, holding Little Mia, spelled it out directly. The other ladies showed no reaction, but Luvia realized it almost the instant she heard all the letters:
"Isn't that Adele Isabella's name, rearranged into a false name?"
She was surprised that she had noticed it faster than Dorothy, who was more familiar with words, but then she keenly realized that if this was true, the implications behind it were something no one present had considered:
"That Speaker has already met Shade?"
Luvia frowned slightly, and Shade asked worriedly:
"What, is there a problem with divining her?"
"No, there's no problem. I was just thinking that, based on your and Miss Reinhart's descriptions, this person's appearance is very strange. Vanessa also said earlier that the power she displayed in the end was far beyond the level of seven or eight rings."
"And her Power of Time is formidable."
The little elf added, but Luvia looked around and found no sign of anything unusual on anyone else's face. It seemed she