Today was a special day. For Eileen, having acquired a fun new toy naturally meant she would be staying at the club for quite some time, which also gave the witches a chance to go home and tidy up their treasures. No matter how convenient portable spaces were, witches still carried an instinctive sense of unease. They would hide all their treasures away in their nests, after all. Even the most formidable witch suffered a massive disadvantage when fighting on another witch's home ground.
Strictly speaking, the reason Eileen had lost to Anjie back then was because she had actually accepted an invitation to a duel.
If Eileen had been a little shameless and hidden inside her own nest, she still could have won.
But Eileen possessed the unique arrogance of the strongest witches, their unique confidence, their unique self-destructive way of thinking. She had chosen to fight the strongest witch in the world at the time in a battle with nowhere to run, and ultimately lost, bringing the era of the First Witch to an end.
But back to the point: arranging one's treasures inside one's nest truly was what put witches most at ease. It was one of their safest places; the other was the Witch Agency Bank. Yet leaving things there always brought a trace of worry, so the Witch Agency Bank was more often treated as a "payment platform" and an "income platform." Usually, money was only deposited there when a huge payment was needed, then transferred straight back out.
"Witches trust collective society, yet they don't trust collective society. They really are an absurdly contradictory race—fond of bustle, yet fond of lonely seclusion; fond of living in isolated castles as though they would spend their whole lives alone inside, yet constantly going out to visit