"Your analogy... leaves much to be desired."
Passing through the next door, the group emerged from inside the giant tree onto one of its branches.
At the massive branch tip stood a courtyard.
"Wow, Little Huan, Little Die, and the pink puppy!"
Trianne had been waiting there. She was delighted to see Yan Huan and Castorice arrive.
"Lord Tian!" Castorice hurried over to check on her. "Are you all right? You're not hurt, are you?"
"No." Trianne shook her head. "Trianne flew way up high. The monsters couldn't reach Trianne at all."
"That's the advantage of having a z-axis." Yan Huan asked Trianne:
"Did you find out where Anaxa is?"
"I did!"
Trianne was thrilled. "The spindle Aya gave me is amazing! Trianne used it to find little Anaxa's trail!"
"He's near the crown of the tree. The trace is faint, but it's different from those dryads we met earlier."
"But Trianne was alone and afraid it might be dangerous, so Trianne didn't fly over to look!"
Castorice nodded. "It seems Lord Tian remembered our promise."
"Teacher Anaxa really is alive, and he's at the Enlightenment Throne... At least Calypso wasn't lying about that."
Trianne froze. "Huh? Calypso... who's that?"
"A ghost we just met." Yan Huan looked back. "Huh? Where did the ghost go?!"
"Whoa! Trianne really wants to see a ghost even the Golden Thread can't detect!"
"Never mind her for now. Trianne found this too! Could it have something to do with the person you mentioned?"
Under Castorice's and Yan Huan's gazes, Trianne pulled out a scrap of black cloth.
It looked like a piece of scorched fabric.
"Which trash can did you dig that out of...?" Yan Huan frowned.
"Picking up random trash will make your hands rot, you know!"
"It's not trash!" Trianne explained:
"Trianne