Compared to Shade's former companions, the Witches with this Safe Room lived relatively comfortably. After sitting down by the fireplace, Shade had intended to tell them he had found a way to deal with the fortieth-floor Rune Lock, but Miss Coens asked with concern:
"You look like you've just been through a very difficult battle. Did you encounter danger in the corridor?"
Shade had left directly from the battlefield with the Falling Star Beast, so it was only natural that Miss Coens could tell.
Considering that, although time had not been doubled this time, he still had sixty minutes, and his only task was to check the situation on the fortieth floor, Shade nodded:
"I ran into some very troublesome things. Does any of you recognize this?"
The Star Blue book opened beside him, and Shade took out the silver-blue bent arc frozen within its pages. Although it was currently the early Fifth Epoch, Shade had not really expected to obtain any clues. Yet after the three Witches examined the bent arc in his hand, they actually gave three different answers:
"Fragments of Fate?"
"Fragments of the Starry Sky?"
"Ring of Fate?"
The three answers came from Miss Coens, Miss Novare, and Lady Gerd respectively. Though the answers differed, all of them were correct, with Lady Gerd's answer being the most accurate.
"I saw records of this bent arc in a senior's notes. It is said to be related to the origin of the Demon Hunting Seal and is called a Fate Fragment. But I do not know any more than that. Even the hunters have many different theories about the origin of the Demon Hunting Seal."
"I saw something similar in ancient clan documents. It was the diary of a great astrologer from our clan, and she called it