The Archwitch’s prediction was accurate.
The familiar figure I encountered not long afterward was proof. It had not even been a full day since I received my teacher’s communication.
The first thing that caught the eye was her small stature.
She was a girl with a doll-like appearance. The dissonance between her diminutive frame and enormous pointed hat was striking. In a sense, perhaps one could even call it an element that symbolically revealed her identity.
Surprisingly, this woman was older than me despite her appearance.
Elsie Rynella.
The ‘Archwitch’s’ second disciple, and my fiancée. Nevertheless, I could only release a long sigh.
“I cannot believe this……”
“Well, well. You look rather dissatisfied.”
It was the first time we had seen one another in quite a while.
Ordinarily, was this not a situation where we should both have been delighted? Yet I frowned the moment I saw her, giving the girl ample reason to feel displeased.
If she did not know how abnormal this situation was.
Fortunately, Senior Elsie was not that ignorant. If anything, she knew the truth all too well. It was apparent merely from the troubled look in her eyes, which contrasted with the cheeks she had puffed up playfully.
Her idle joke did not last long.
Soon, my fiancée covered her face with both hands in despair.
“Ahh, this is driving me insane…… Are we already too late……?”
A dispirited groan followed.
It was only natural. The two of us had originally been separated by a distance we could never have crossed.
I was in the continent’s west, while Senior Elsie had been…