"Would you be able to gather these things within the day? We must act fast, so we can hold the ritual at sundown." The student said so as if everyone knew what he was up to. Now that Ahsikh questioned him, he froze a little as if backing up and trying to come up with an explanation.
"…ah… this is… this is a ritual to invoke the glass swan." Phillip laughed in a nervous tone. "Let's see… the glass swan is an existence that is not quite the same as demons. Let us say that it is a spirit that may be bound to serve someone for ten years. It's like… domesticating an animal for a limited time.
"Well, the glass swan has been… absent… unsummoned for a long time, but… a millennium ago, there was a recorded summoning. These are the needed pieces to summon it… or awaken it, rather." Phillip only glanced at Freya, clueless about her level of familiarity with June's dark secrets. "It's said that the glass swan embodies itself in multiple glass statues. When one of them shatters…
