After announcing the end of the gathering, old Mr. Eye of Wisdom pointed at the woman who had just warned everyone to beware of Demonesses and said, "You leave first."
He looked around before adding, "Everyone else may leave fifteen minutes later."
"Fifteen minutes?" someone grumbled softly. "Wasn't a three-minute interval normally enough?"
Eye of Wisdom did not respond, but some experienced participants understood that this was to protect the woman. She carried both a mystical item worth 4,000 pounds and news concerning Demonesses.
Eye of Wisdom was worried that someone at the gathering might mean her harm, so he had deliberately extended the usual three-minute interval to a quarter of an hour.
The woman stood up and, led by an attendant, left the living room and arrived beside the main entrance. She removed her Black-Iron Mask and returned it to the Gatekeeper. Rather than returning to Brave Bar, she seemed very familiar with the surroundings and went straight through an alley to the main street.
She arrived in the East Borough and slipped into a house. It was a one-room residence. Without lighting a lamp, she took off her classical robe and hung it in the wardrobe.
After finishing this, she hugged the box containing the bone flute and crawled beneath the blankets, quickly falling asleep.
A moment later, thick black liquid flowed from the woman's mouth, nostrils, and ears. It fell to the floor, gathered together, then bulged upward as flesh and blood intertwined to form Kardashian's figure.
Kardashian took the box containing the mystical item, then turned into a black carpet and rolled out through the window with it.
That same night.
In a manor on distant Symeem Island, Doctor Polly was about to go to sleep when his intuition was suddenly stirred. He heard an illusory