Victoria's hands instinctively loosened, and the bricks she had bundled in her skirt clattered to the floor.
The falling floor tiles kicked up dust, leaving her looking particularly grubby.
Victoria's face slowly flushed red.
"I, I, this isn't, I mean..."
Suddenly, she caught on. "Wait, Vanessa! What are you doing here?!"
This was a Great Being's Abode. How had Vanessa gotten in?!
"I..."
Vanessa turned to look at the familiar palace, then at the holes Victoria had dug out, her expression complicated.
The one thing that did not surprise her at all was being able to come here.
It was perfectly normal for the Great Being to pull her in...
Victoria, however, frowned in thought.
"Now that I think about it, you have been here before. We came together the first time, but I sent you back..."
"Could the Great Being have intended for us to build the Abode together?"
That seemed to make sense, but Victoria still had a vague feeling that something was wrong.
She seemed to have overlooked something.
Suddenly, a faint phantom entered her field of vision.
"Evan! Right! There's Evan too!"
Vanessa was one thing; she had indeed visited the Abode before. But why was Evan, who had been staying in her Library, here too?
In other words, everyone in her Grand Library had been pulled in.
A coincidence?
Victoria shook her head. There were no coincidences in the supernatural.
And that was indeed the case. Vanessa's appearance was no accident.
After Elliot noticed signs that Victoria intended to leave, he immediately pulled Vanessa in.
Victoria's identity was special. For now, it was best to limit her contact with the Communion, and under these circumstances, Vanessa was the only suitable person to interact with her.
As it happened, Elliot had Elsa to control in the