Angel’s brow furrowed as his fingers tapped lightly on the table in slight impatience.
Angel hadn’t expected that casually investigating the Underground Altar would end up involving Reynaud. Most importantly, Reynaud is related to Nausicaa!
After the New Star Competition, Nausicaa left with Reynaud. Now Reynaud has become a soul, and there’s no news of Nausicaa. What exactly happened in between?
Where is Nausicaa now? Is she also involved in this matter, and... is she still alive?
The more Angel thought about it, the more uneasy he felt in his heart.
After a while, he raised his eyes to look at Cindy, who seemed somewhat confused: "Is Reynaud still following you now?"
Cindy nodded: "Yes, the four of us who accepted the mission are now on an uninhabited island reef in the Mist Belt. Reynaud is also here."
Angel: "Go offline now and ask Reynaud if he still remembers Nausicaa. If he does, have him describe Nausicaa’s situation; if he’s unwilling to talk, just mention my name... If he still resists, hand the login device to him and have him come online so I can ask him."
Cindy opened her mouth, wasn’t it Lord Rhein’s order to keep the login device secret, isn’t it inappropriate to let an unknown person in just like that?
The reason Cindy thought this way was that she’d had the login device for too short a time and didn’t know that the Wilderness of Dreams itself was created by Angel.
However, she glanced at Ironclad Granny and Nis, who did not show any opposition, so she nodded: "Okay, I will go ask now."
After Cindy left, Nis looked at Angel: "I remember, Nausicaa is the female pirate from the same period as you, right?"
When Angel first entered the Mirror World, it was Nis who guided them to jump into the abyss, so Nis remembered Nausicaa... because she was very beautiful. Also, Angel had a good relationship with Nausicaa, as Nis had learned from his short-lived apprentice Hook Dick.
Angel nodded: "Yes, Nausicaa is my friend."
"What’s going on between her and Reynaud?" Nis asked, "Are they a couple?"
Angel shook his head: "After the New Star competition ended, Nausicaa left with Reynaud, saying she was going to get something important..."
At this point, Angel suddenly paused.
Reynaud had said he escaped from a laboratory, labeled as number 1... Nausicaa said she was going with Reynaud to get something important...
The sacrifice of the Earth Cavern... The ossified remains of supernatural organs...
In Dodoro’s prophecy, organs preserved in special liquids... Transcendent organs from various races, including humans... The right hand of the Night Butterfly Witch...
In his mind, many previously incomprehensible fragmented memories all surged out, weaving into a logical chain with a hidden dark line.
Finally, at the end of this logical chain, a memory fragment of Nausicaa appeared.
It was when Angel was still an apprentice, returning to the Barbarian Cave from the Fairy Tale World when it happened.
Angel returned to Apprentice Town, just about to push open the door to his home, when he saw a woman in soft armor standing under a distant tree.
It was Nausicaa.
Nausicaa initially had her back to Angel, her beautiful brown wavy hair messily blown by the wind.
"Nausicaa."
She seemed to hear Angel’s call and gently turned her body. Her almost perfect profile relaxed into a light pear dimple when she saw Angel.
"Oh, Angel." Nausicaa waved her left hand, "You’re finally back."
Angel’s gaze fell to her right-hand side, where it was entirely empty.
"Your right hand... was it injured?"
"Injured? No." Nausicaa sensed the shock in Angel’s eyes but felt nothing herself, smiling as she said, "My right hand, I just accidentally lost it."
The memory stopped there.
Angel felt his thoughts still somewhat hazy, but based on this chain of memory deductions, he seemed to have realized something.
As a wizard of the bloodline side, Nausicaa’s right hand was undoubtedly extremely important. Even if Angel had made a special prosthesis in substitution, it ultimately couldn’t perform completely like a natural limb.
Undoubtedly, Nausicaa needed a right hand.
After the New Star competition ended, Nausicaa told Angel when she left: The place where Reynaud was taking her had something she needed. This item was very important to her, the first goal to achieving her final dream.
Although Nausicaa didn’t say what it was at the time, according to the current clues and deductions, what Nausicaa wanted was probably a right hand.
And the laboratory where Reynaud was could indeed provide Nausicaa with a right hand.
After clarifying Nausicaa’s goal, Angel’s heart was filled with more doubts.
On what basis did Nausicaa think she could obtain a right hand from that group of tattooed people?
Afterwards, what exactly happened?
"Angel?"
"Angel?"
Angel came back to his senses from his thoughts, raising his head to look at Nis opposite him.
Nis: "Why are you dazing off again, what exactly are you thinking? You just said Nausicaa left with Reynaud to get something important, what was it?"
Angel: "She didn’t tell me at the time, but judging from the current situation, perhaps what Nausicaa wanted to get was a right hand compatible with her bloodline."
Angel didn’t hide anything, simply recounting Nausicaa’s situation and his deductions.
After hearing this, Nis agreed thoughtfully: "Your deduction seems to have some truth to it, indeed. Nausicaa happens to lack an arm, and that group of number tattooed people is very likely involved in organ trafficking. Dodoro’s prophecy also showed many transcendent organs, including the right hand... Hey?! I remember the right hand of the Night Butterfly Witch was mentioned; could it be that Nausicaa had her eyes on that?"
Ironclad Granny tilted her head and exclaimed softly: "That’s really possible. Do you remember how Ferro answered when Reynaud asked about the Night Butterfly Witch?"
—Are you going to fight her for it?
The ’her’ here in the Universal Language specifically refers to the third person female pronoun.
Nis clapped his hands: "Exactly, exactly! That must be it! Nausicaa certainly has high standards, having her eyes on the Night Butterfly Witch’s hand!"
Nis’s deduction, perhaps, is indeed the truth. However, at this moment, it was no longer important to Angel.
What he cared more about now was, what exactly is Nausicaa’s current situation?