Closia had actually entered this Nightmare before? Heh, no wonder she knew so clearly how to enter the "ruins" and had even "guessed" that the necessary conditions were "a full-moon night and the aid of tranquilizing herbs"...
I had really thought she deduced it from the caravan leader's testimony... Thinking about it now, perhaps that caravan's being able to "happen" to enter the ruins on a full-moon night and retrieve the "treasure" had all been part of a script she designed!
After all, setting sail at night was a very dangerous thing. Even if the Sonia Sea was an inland sea, it was only slightly safer than the Sunia Sea... Looking back, it really was rather unreasonable.
Hmm, the reason she hadn't taken the rest of the valuables during her previous visit was because she still needed them to set up this scheme, right?
Combined with the "performance" Miss Closia had asked Dunn and me to put on tomorrow...
Could this be a ritual she had prepared for advancing to Dream Weaver?
As his thoughts raced, Abner felt sincere admiration for Closia's ability to scheme. Roselle had indeed been right: "Be careful of Spectators"!
Of course, that excluded a certain Psychology Alchemists council member who, when consumed by "Greed," dared to face an Angel head-on...
By the time he came back to his senses, the Rewind had already ended. After pondering for a while, Abner took out the giant descendant's notebook he had exchanged from Miss Gwen and walked toward the enormous ancient castle built against the mountain.
After thinking for a moment and recalling the information he had obtained by helping those giants earlier, he finally decided to take a risk and use the Pure White Eye to perform Analysis on the castle.
Very quickly, the castle in his