Dawn

Turn back time a little.

I was able to escape when the space itself collapsed after [Air Buster] inflicted an enormous shock within the space inside Cristo's first edition.

I heard the first edition insulting me, but I dismissed it as my imagination and ignored it.

"So."

We returned to our lodging after extracting the mana of Sailor, who had died instantly, and even the residual mana at the Marita Museum, our target, using the machine Velias had previously given me to detect my own mana.

There, Velias was waiting for me with a slightly dark expression.

"You lost her?"

"Yeees..."

The task I had given Velias was to confirm and attack Sarah, who appeared to be a suspect.

Ah, of course, I had told her to first make contact with or surveil her, confirm anything suspicious, and only then proceed with the attack rather than blindly suspecting her...