Chapter 95: Think It Over

After coming to the Garden, I had plenty of suspicions, but the farther I went, the more they turned into certainty.

A wand whose magic had filled for no reason, a world resembling the fairy tales Alice liked, and chocolate unlike anything found in the Abyss.

The soldiers' claim that the 'reward' the Queen had given the knights was chocolate was enough to erase my last remaining doubt.

'...It's her.'

No one else would do something like this.

It's not some Abyssal One connected to that woman. It's the woman herself. There was no other way to explain it.

But... if that's true...?

That crazy woman was alive in the Abyss, commanded dozens of S-rank or stronger Abyssal Ones, and had combat power beyond even that, since she had already subdued those Abyssal Ones once.

...She had grown even stronger than when she had operated as Alice.

'Th-this crazy bitch...'...