Having agreed on a time to meet Miss Belindel again tomorrow, Shard finally returned to his home in Tobesk after a tiring day.
Since Emilia was temporarily staying here, the house naturally had its lights on. Luviya's shoes were in the first-floor hallway's shoe cabinet, indicating that the purple-eyed Miss Diviner had taken Emilia to tour the Prophet's Society this afternoon and then returned together.
The keen-eared Mia habitually ran downstairs to greet Shard, while upstairs, Luviya, who was discussing life at Saint Byrons Academy with Emilia, laughed and said to the Elf girl:
"Shard's cat is so smart that its intelligence always surprises us. Shard has often asked me to divine if Mia is..."
"Meow~ Meow~"
She paused mid-sentence and looked towards the staircase with Emilia. They had recognized the sound of a "warning" from a cat, followed by Shard's somewhat "panicked" explanation:
