"From your current condition, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with death."
After giving Elizabeth a rough examination, Jia Xiu came to that conclusion.
There were no abnormal mana fluctuations on her body.
Before, Jia Xiu might have suspected some special circumstance beyond his perception. But now, with the boost from Mana Comprehension, his sensitivity to mana had reached an almost eerie level. There shouldn't have been even the slightest trace of mana that he could fail to detect.
So Elizabeth really was fine.
She had merely been frightened.
"So only your little bat clone died. You're fine. Next time, could you not yell, 'I'm dead'? It sounds pretty terrifying."
"But my little bat is part of me too."
"No one loses a strand of hair and claims they've died."
"When you put it that way, that does seem true."
Elizabeth shook her little head and said,
"But what happened then was really strange."
At that, Jia Xiu immediately became serious.
"What exactly did you encounter? What killed your bat clone?"
He pressed for details at once.
This was key information about what kind of plane lay on the other side.
"Hmm—"
Elizabeth widened her pitch-black eyes and sank into thought.
Yet half a minute later, she answered somewhat uncertainly, "This may sound strange, but—
—I don't think I encountered anything at all."
"Huh?"
Jia Xiu confirmed again. "Nothing at all?"
"Really, nothing at all. I was still flying, and I was getting close to the mountain I saw before. Then I suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, and after that, the connection was cut off."
"Huh?"
Jia Xiu considered what might have happened—
And came up with absolutely nothing.
There was far too little information. Even fortune-telling required asking more questions.
"You weren't attacked?"
Elizabeth shook her head.