"Peck peck peck..."

When Fisher recognized that lark he knew all too well as coming from that black-haired Witch, the lark outside the window, which had been tilting its head, suddenly seemed to focus, shifting its gaze from the floating Emhardt to Fisher beside him.

"!"

Fisher hurried to the window and opened it. Since the window opened outward, the Hart Bird even spread its wings and flew back a short distance to wait for him to finish opening it, only then landing on the windowsill again.

"Renie, you’re back."

"Coo coo coo~"

Fisher subconsciously reached out a finger to rub the lark’s little head, but the next second the lark suddenly opened its beak and bit down on his finger.

"Hiss..."

"Coo coo coo coo!"

Only after he flinched back in pain did the lark stand there, chirping a string of curses.

"You didn’t notice me earlier?"

"Coo coo!"

"So... things are a bit complicated right now. Can you show yourself so I can explain?"

"Coo coo..."

"Then I’ll wait for you here."

"Coo coo!"

The lark nodded, then spread its wings and flew into the Sky behind it, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

Behind him, Little Alicia opened her mouth, looking curiously at Emhardt beside her as she asked,

"Big brother can talk to animals?"

"...He’s dating an animal."

"?"

Fisher glanced back at Emhardt with a blank face, making him sheepishly scurry up to Alicia’s head. But soon, the flapping outside grew heavier; when Fisher lifted his eyes, he saw many larks gathering outside.

Fisher stepped back, letting the lark come into the room. Strangely, once the lark flying in midair crossed the boundary of the window, it suddenly changed—its black feathers softened bit by bit, turning half-transparent, becoming like black gauze.

Fisher’s mouth parted slightly as he instinctively reached out to catch. Then, amid a rich, faint fragrance, a soft, slender body slowly formed under the wrap of black gauze, transforming into that black-haired Witch and landing in Fisher’s hands, still as light as the lark had been.

"Renie..."

Fisher lowered his head to look at his arms, and saw those purple eyes, full of flavor like a freshly opened wine, open at the same time to meet his gaze. That beautiful, older-sister face was tinged with a bit of reproach; she promptly reached out to pinch his cheek, then drifted up like a phantom and settled down not far from Fisher.

"You really had me worried. You suddenly vanished from the Spirit Realm—I thought those Chaos things had..."

She’s really a person!

Alicia blinked, watching the strange process of the lark turning into a beautiful Witch. It felt like ever since she left Grandpa’s house and started staying with big brother, she’d been running into this sort of wonderful thing all the time.

But at the same time, she couldn’t help her childish confusion. Wasn’t Queen Elizabeth on very good terms with big brother? They should be together, like Sister Vileli and her husband. So why did big brother still look so close with this sister in front of her named "Renie"?

Fisher had no idea he’d just delivered a small shock to five-year-old Alicia without even realizing it. He only rubbed his chin and muttered,

"You couldn’t see me in the Spirit Realm?"

"Of course not, that’s why I had Hart come looking for you. I searched here, the Northern Realm, and the South Continent. Luckily I saw Emhardt here and guessed you’d come to Nali."

"But you can see me now, right?"

"Mm, that’s indeed the case."

Thinking it through, the way this Blessing worked was actually based on his own judgment as the standard. Once he recognized Renie’s lark, it lifted the concealment on her. In other words, the Blessing’s activation could be controlled; it was just that Fisher couldn’t yet consciously direct it to perform more intelligent, specific blocking.

Don’t forget, the Blessing bestowed on him actually came from that tentacle that was still attached to his body. So if he communicated with it, was there a chance it could use this Blessing more flexibly instead of in such a rigid way?

"I’ve more or less wrapped up the South Continent affairs. I came to Nali earlier because..."

Fisher never really hid anything from Renie. He roughly told her what he’d done on the South Continent, and about the Hidden Blessing he’d found in Nali, and how that was why he couldn’t be observed.

Renie looked him up and down in surprise, then pursed her lips and said,

"Ah, so you were forced into this Blessing cocoon? I thought you did it on purpose because you were afraid your mischief would get caught."

"Renie..."

"Alright, alright..." Renie sighed, then quickly broke into a wicked grin. "But since you’re wrapped up in the Blessing and already back to being just a normal guy, I’m afraid you can’t do much with the women you know. See? Now Elizabeth has you locked up as her golden canary, hasn’t she?"

Back then, he’d had the chance to run—but he truly couldn’t bear to make Elizabeth keep waiting any longer.

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