"What did you see when you touched the statue?"
The Witch made no effort to hide her delight at the understanding they'd just shown.
Even after such a hair-raising experience, though, she didn't waste time reviewing it. Instead, she went straight to the point.
Fu Qian had clearly gained something from being in the corridor, but had simply skipped the discussion to save time.
And the discovery that seemed to have so much to do with "Mother" had clearly caught the Witch's interest.
"Remember when I told you about Full Moon Garden? The place where I first touched the supernatural."
Fu Qian made no secret of it. He pointed to himself.
"The statue showed you that directly?"
The Witch was clearly taken aback.
She could easily see what that implied.
She'd already suspected that the flowers found here meant her revelation as a Templar Knight might have something to do with Mother's will. Was this direct proof?
"Yes. And besides the flowers your mother likes, there were plenty of other traces in there: a bright white full moon, a half-man, half-wolf monster, and a barefoot doctor I could talk to..."
Fu Qian described the sights in Full Moon Garden in detail, as if naming old friends.
"So that garden is in the world you're from?"
After gazing into the distance and pondering for a moment, the Witch quickly offered a somewhat unexpected theory, having absorbed all these revelations.
"That's what I think, too. Your mother left plenty of traces in that world, but you can't touch them at all."
Fu Qian also clearly thought that was the most likely explanation.
The Witch could sense that something was amiss with Full Moon Garden, yet she couldn't glimpse anything inside it.
That astonishing barrier had appeared just recently—when she'd forced her way