At Wangshu Inn, almost all the guests, assistants, and serving maids could see a young girl dressed in a brand-new witch's robe and wide-brimmed witch's hat pacing around inside and outside the inn in a strange, furtive manner, as if she were looking for someone or something. Yet she never took the initiative to ask anyone, and whenever the inn's maids approached her, she acted wary and hesitant, stammering and failing to explain what she wanted or why.
Thus, after the girl in the wide-brimmed witch's hat emerged from the elevator from Snezhnaya and walked away, two of the inn's maids gathered together and began whispering and pointing.
"Hey!"
"Yuhua, take a look!"
"What's up with that guest?"
"Which one?"
"That one. Look, the foreigner wearing the wide-brimmed witch's hat."
"Eh?"
"You mean that astrologer lady?"
"That's right!"
"Her!"
"Huh?"
"What's wrong with her?"
"What's wrong? You don't know?"
"No. I was serving on the inn's rooftop terrace earlier and just came down!"
"Oh, is that so?"
"Then let me tell you... She's been acting sneaky ever since earlier, wandering around inside and outside our inn several times. When we ask what she's doing, she refuses to say. She just keeps peeking around. She definitely isn't up to anything good!"
"Shh!"
"Keep your voice down. She's a friend of that honored guest of ours."
"I know!"
"Otherwise, I would've already told the manager and had the staff throw her out as a thief!"
"You don't know how filthy she was dressed when she first arrived. The clothes she changed out of were incredibly difficult to wash. She freeloaded food, drinks, and a place to sleep, and now she's still wandering around our inn. Who knows what she's trying to steal!"
"!"
"Don't say that! Be careful someone hears you!"
"What's