Elsa raised an eyebrow and looked in surprise toward the waterway beside her.
Crow pecked at the crab a few times atop the coffin. She had already picked out and eaten all its meat, then tossed its shell into the water not far away.
The tense standoff here had not interfered with her meal.
"A very fresh sea crab. Fresh and sweet," Dorothea said.
Elsa froze for a moment before she understood. "You mean-the waterways here lead to the sea?"
"That's right. And this is all flowing water. The crabs were swept in by the tide." Dorothea hopped twice on the coffin, then tilted her head to look at the waterway below.
"I have a feeling Holly's real Hideout is very likely connected to the Deep Sea."
Elsa nodded thoughtfully. Dorothea really had grown a little sillier lately, but her intuition had become stronger instead.
Those strange limbs on that woman just now were clearly connected to Otherworldly Species.
And since the Royal Family kept Blood Vampires, they must have already come into contact with Otherworldly Species. Considering that bizarre room in Sidney's Palace, along with the fact that Holly was the Third Prince's confidante-
"It looks like Holly probably knows quite a few secrets."
Elsa sighed.
Dorothea had not thought that far. She plucked another sea snail from the seawater with her beak. "Didn't you think that woman looked a little familiar?"
"A little. She should be the person Vanessa saw, right?"
The woman Holly had carried out of the Palace's secret chamber was blonde, and the woman just now was blonde too. It matched.
"No, I mean, didn't you think she-looked like Theresia?"
"Theresia? Which Theresia? Wait, you mean-hiss!"
Elsa sucked in a cold breath, almost jumping in shock!
Theresia, the Steam Angel, the Bronze Sculpture in the