Shade could only helplessly accept the fact that the Doctor was still unable to go to the Snow Mountain for the time being:
"But we still have to do something about that Demon, right? Are we just going to let it hide in the shadows?"
"Of course not. The Church is only monitoring whether we are still human and whether we have left Tobesk. There are no other restrictions. I'll make some Alchemy Items later and give them to you at the meeting on saturday afternoon.
After you take those Alchemy Items to Fatumonst Island, you can toss them anywhere you like. On the one hand, they can be used for reconnaissance; on the other, they can imitate the elemental traces of a Demon Hunter. Even if I can't find it now, I won't let it hide peacefully in the Snow Mountain. Besides, you said that the Church's Demon Exorcism Squad hasn't left either. I'd like to see how much longer it can keep hiding."
During the week the Doctor had been "taken away," nothing else worth noting had happened apart from the Academy's bounty notice concerning Doppelgangers. But since they had brought up the subject of Doppelgangers, Shade also told him about what he had discovered on the island that morning.
The Doctor truly hated those "cockroaches" now:
"If there's ever a chance to uproot that House of False Men, I'll definitely help. But are Doppelgangers really this common now? There were actually two in the delegation?"
Shade was puzzled by that as well.
At two in the afternoon, Leisha arrived at 6 Saint Derain Square right on time, knocking on the door with a smile. After entering the foyer and closing the door behind her, she immediately pounced on Shade and knocked him onto the stairs. Dorothy, standing