Rosa sat on the long sofa in the conservatory, her legs crossed, looking utterly relaxed. During their earlier phone call, Bayonetta had briefly described her dream to her, which was why Rosa had left Balder behind and flown directly from Miami to Oxfordshire. She picked up the Cheshire Cat sprawled on the sofa, but the plump cat did not dare resist at all and could only obediently submit to Rosa's petting.
"What did you see? I mean, what exactly did you see?" She raised the question impatiently the moment she sat down. "Who you were in that dream will explain most of the secrets, my dear Cereza."
As the former bearer of the Eyes of the World and the former matriarch of the Shadow Witch, Rosa had received a far more complete education than either Bayonetta or Jeanne. When the witch hunts occurred, Bayonetta and Jeanne had still been competing for the title of Shadow Witch, a title that had once belonged to Rosa. The two witches of this era knew very little about the knowledge accumulated by the Shadow Witch organization over many years, because after the Lumen Sages captured the Shadow Witch stronghold, the first thing they did was burn all the knowledge the Shadow Witches had gathered. When Rosa returned to what had once been the Shadow Witch stronghold, she had often lost her temper at Balder over this, even though the one who had burned the library was not this timeline's Balder.
"To be honest, I don't know." Bayonetta did not sit down. Instead, she stared through the conservatory glass at Milia, who was playing outside with Miss Peanut Butter. She had once suspected that Milia and Salomon were related by blood, and that perhaps Milia's blood could be used to trace Salomon's coordinates in the