First Meeting of the Two Messengers

Inside Luther's house in the North Borough.

"Your letters."

The ship spirit Antiya emerged from the void and tossed two envelopes into his arms. "One is from your first mate, and the other is from that fellow Roselle's daughter."

After finishing the task, she expertly settled onto the sofa beside Luther. With a reach of her hand, she fished the sleeping Luna out of the shadows. The whole sequence flowed smoothly; before Luna could react, she had already been placed on Antiya's lap and was being stroked.

That fellow's daughter... Oh, Bernadette.

Luther picked up the envelope and only realized who it was from when he saw Queen Mystic's elegant handwriting.

It seemed Antiya still bore a grudge against Roselle.

"Hm?"

Luther picked up both letters and inspected them. Both envelopes were thick and bulging, seemingly stuffed full of paper.

Did they really have that much to say to me...? Just kidding. They probably enclosed something else.

Thinking this, Luther casually opened Bernadette's envelope.

"Rustle."

Something fell from within. It was a heavily folded sheet of paper printed with densely packed Intis words... Yes, it was a newspaper. A passage on one of its prominent pages had been circled in red ink, with Bernadette's handwriting beside it: "The newspaper agreed to serialize the novel. The manuscript payment has already been deposited into the designated account."

That was right. The newspaper had published the legend of Blood Bishop and the King of Blood, written by Miss Magician.

Since Fors's masterpiece could not be published in Loen, Luther had asked Queen Mystic, who had connections in Intis, for help. Intis truly lived up to its reputation: it liked mocking Loen in daily life and had even abolished its monarchy. Such a banned book passed review without issue and was openly published.

"What