After fulfilling Mr. Door's request, Abner turned his gaze toward Beldan City and discovered that Wood had successfully met another of his apostles, Aurore, the so-called Lady Green Shadow, after a battle. He nodded in satisfaction.
"Just as Roselle said, the wheel of fate has begun to turn. There's no need for me to keep interfering from here on...
"Or rather, only by interfering as little as possible can I hope to truly draw that one out.
"Still, this isn't something that can be accomplished in a short time... As a Great Old One, that one has enough patience. Perhaps it will only truly act decades or even centuries from now."
As his thoughts turned, Abner cast another distant glance at Wood, Wim, and the others, who were holding a banquet with the maids from his ducal residence at the Witch's Cuisine restaurant, before withdrawing his gaze.
Speaking of which, the so-called Witch's Cuisine restaurant was opened by Mr. Fool's Food Apostle, the Witch Shako.
She had originally opened the restaurant in Backlund, but business had been bleak due to the war, forcing her to relocate to Beldan.
As for Lina, the Demoness of Affliction who had taken Prince Edessak away after the Great Smog incident, she had also recently joined Witch's Cuisine—after Empress Vera took power, the prince no longer needed her protection and naturally no longer had to hide.
As for the prince himself, he had already removed his mask and returned to a normal life as an ordinary person...
Because the prince had always longed for Trissy, while Lina could not accept men, the two of them had ultimately failed to get together despite living together for so long.
"Trissy..." Abner murmured her name, but he had no intention of reuniting the pair of lovers.
Although, given