Taking Office

After the messenger left, the three of them split up and took action.

Knight was the first to leave.

She went straight to Mountain Guardian's villa.

She had thought she could still make it in time to see Mountain Guardian off, but Mountain Guardian had left very early—probably around the time she sent Knight that message.

By the time Knight arrived, Mountain Guardian was already gone from the villa. Only the Butler remained, taking care of things.

The Butler had clearly been expecting Knight. After giving her a slight bow, she carried a box out of Mountain Guardian's study.

"These are all Lady Mountain Guardian's notes on her insights over the years,"

the Butler said softly.

"Before Lady Mountain Guardian left, she instructed me that if Miss Knight came, I was to give this box to you."

"She also specifically told me not to urge you to finish reading everything at once."

"These are, after all, Lady Mountain Guardian's insights from several decades. It isn't realistic to expect you to understand them all at once... She hopes you'll take the time to truly feel your way through them."

It was a storage box of moderate size, but the instant Knight took it, she felt its weight pressing down heavily.

Although their strength became extraordinarily powerful after they became Magical Girls, they also became extremely sensitive to changes in weight.

It was heavy.

To an ordinary person, this box was truly very heavy.

Knight gave the Butler a solemn nod, then carried the box back into the villa.

Love and Thousand Blades had also left while she was gone.

She went straight to the sofa in the living room and sat down before opening the box.

It was packed full of notebooks.

They were stacked neatly, one after another. The leather