With Rei and Rook speaking with – or rather, learning from – Vanilla, and Bella and Fox engaged in an intense discussion on some kind of an array with Aoi, the two siblings Jules and Mana glanced at each other, and with silent agreement, slipped out of the room.
Mana led her older brother to her room in the imperial palace, and put up privacy wards immediately.
"We found the metal and the stone both in the Pearl Kingdom," Mana said to Jules. "How were things at your end?"
