"Heh, hehehe."
A strange, shrill laugh echoed through the entire Small World. The rift in space had yet to fully heal, and the golden net and sparks could still faintly be seen. The toad crouching at the center of the Magic Circle had a bluish-black tongue drooping from its mouth. Its bulging eyes were half-lidded as they stared toward the patch of gold. Its voice, like its tongue, was thick and sluggish, making one's skin itch all over just from hearing it:
"Hehe... that ewe has already fallen into the 'correct' place... so... we should speed things up."
After saying that, one of its eyeballs rolled back to the front and settled on the two witches before it. Colmar's eyes had rolled white, and several strands of deathly pale hair had appeared amid her beautiful locks at some point. She looked like a pill whose sugar coating had been sucked away, exuding a bitter aura from within. Ilena still gripped the silver knife in one hand, half her body stained with bright red sheep's blood. Set against her wine-red wavy hair, it gave her a bizarre sort of beauty.
The toad's other eyeball rolled toward another direction, fixing on a witch outside the Magic Circle and the black cat at her side.
More precisely, its attention was mainly focused on the black cat.
"As the reward... for guiding my descent... now, state your wish, wizard."
The toad muttered in its sticky voice, cruelty and greed gleaming in its gaze. Yet that did not mean it would violate the rules established by the summoning ritual. By those rules, while accepting the corresponding sacrifice, it would also grant the sacrificer a certain wish.
"Great and secret existence..."
"God wandering in the depths of the Starry Sky..."
"Here, I offer my body, my