As per the Manual
Bell! Watch out!
Ngh, I can handle this much...!
*Huff...* *Huff...!*
Both of you have improved greatly.
I knew that about Bell from our last meeting, but you, Claire...
This much is hardly worth mentioning.
...I had to make up for your absence.
...
That thing calling itself the owner is gone for good.
Seems like it was just a last-ditch effort.
This realm should begin falling apart now.
Not much time should have passed in the real world.
It should be brief enough as though you were simply taking a nap somewhere in Candle Square.
That aside, Ms. Carnelia, you...
...Well.
Given that I am currently a criminal, I may not be in a position to meet you freely.
You're still not going to tell you what you did, are you?
...Whatever. No matter what you're planning, I'll go speak with Lady Alicia myself if I have to.
Bell.
I don't care what it takes. I'll find a way to meet you and ask everything myself.
And when that happens, you'd better not hide anything from me.
...Of course, Bell.
At that point... I suppose I'll have no choice but to explain everything.
...It won't take long.
Please wait for us until then.
...Goodbye.
Carnelia.
...I wonder whether I'll be able to.
Once, I was loved by many.
Goodness, you've already mastered the entire hexomancy manual!
Ms. Carnelia is clearly the one to become the heiress of the family!
A prodigy of hexomancy.
How can Ms. Carnelia be so kind and beautiful?
Did you hear? The NOA branch was named the best Candle Square in all of Lavistar.
It's all thanks to Ms. Carnelia, of course!
The perfect Master Maid.
It was both my title and the sole warmth in my life.
There were times when I felt I would break without clinging to such things.
I held on with everything I had, yearning for an ordinary life.
Carnelia...!
Until one day.
She appeared before me.
I... I want to...
I want to be like you!!
The one who resembled a blue rose.
The one I had rescued once before.
I had to push her away. I had to.
I had to tell her not to become like me.
That there was nothing worth admiring in me.
But...
Claire, make sure you hold on to this book.
If you've thought it over through and through, but are still unsure of what to do...
Read this book.
But I couldn't push her away.
All I wanted was for her not to follow my path.
And then...
I cast everything aside.
Perhaps, someday far in the future, someone might reach out and stop me.
That was the hope I left behind.