Abigail stared at Braun, her eyes widening in shock as she blurted out instinctively:
"When... when did you come down? How did I not see you?"
After speaking, she unconsciously glanced toward the unusually noisy entrance of the tower, as though she subconsciously expected soldiers to suddenly come chasing after them.
At her words, Braun wore an expression even more astonished than Abigail's, tinged with a thread of incredulous absurdity.
He looked her up and down as if he were meeting her for the first time.
"W-what is it?"
Abigail was utterly baffled, even wondering whether she had accidentally put on the wrong clothes.
But she was no wizard completely ignorant of the Muggle world. There was no way she would make such a basic mistake.
Braun glanced at the bystanders nearby, then leaned closer to Abigail and said in a deeply sincere yet puzzled tone:
"Miss Abigail, forgive me for saying so... are you really a wizard? How could you ask such a... well, common-sense-deficient question?"
He spread his hands. "That place was completely surrounded, alarms were blaring, and the Muggle military had rushed inside. Did you expect me to stroll out through the front entrance and wave goodbye to them?"
"Obviously, after coming 'down,' I used a less conspicuous way to slip over here."
As if worried that Abigail still would not understand, he even used two fingers to mimic walking.
Abigail was left speechless by the way he was treating her like an idiot, and her face immediately darkened.
Yet at the same time, Braun's explanation quietly dispelled a vague and bizarre suspicion lurking in her heart.
After all, no matter how intelligent or lifelike a Golem was, it could not use Apparition like a wizard.
Abigail secretly let out a breath of relief. Only after she