Shade did not need to personally handle the containment of a Document Level Relic like this. Less than an hour after Claire came to inform him, news arrived that Flora and Megan had returned with the Fishing Hook.
Shade saw the hook mounted on a Fishing Rod aboard the ship. Its appearance was utterly ordinary, with indistinct Ancient Runes on its surface—Fishing All Things.
This reminded Shade of the relic he had once possessed, the Soul Fishing Rod. Unfortunately, that Fishing Rod had been destroyed on Sikar Mountain during his battle against the God of Vampires.
Reflecting on the past, he then asked Megan:
"Where do you plan to use this relic? Or are you simply going to contain it?"
"The Witch Council contained it in the past. We plan to give this Fishing Hook to Grandma Cassandra. Perhaps she can discover other uses for it.
Since it is a Fishing Hook that fishes for Destiny, perhaps it can directly fish up a Bent Arc or a ring. The cost of using a relic is unavoidable, but if that cost can be directed toward consuming a certain amount of money or materials, this relic would actually be extremely useful."
Of course, the most valuable part of this matter was that Flora had confirmed that the Spirit Wolves she summoned through Spirit Summoning could indeed locate other relics related to Destiny.
The significance of this went without saying. Perhaps before the story on Snow Mountain ended, she really could use this method to find a new Ring of Fate.
Nothing else happened that morning. Near lunchtime, another report on new plague cases on the island was delivered to Shade. At the same time, the Seer Association sent word that they had found the third person who had traded with Mr. Snake.