"Today marks your sixth day in the Shadow World."
"Though you have achieved some results, you are not happy, hearing the news of Briss Kingdom's consecutive defeats."
"You know that you cannot afford to be lost in confusion any longer."
Cat Boss said to Lanci while curiously fiddling with a music box that began to play a tense tune with its paws.
The at times haunting, at times unrestrained, string sounds carried a sense of urgency, as if a lonely dancer was twirling in the mud, searching for light in the darkness.
In Lanci's Helshalem home, the time was deep into the night.
He sat alone behind an old wooden desk, surrounded by a dense pile of books.
In front of him lay many Magic Engineering Instruments, among which the Luminescent Tube Timer attracted Cat Boss's attention the most, with its glowing orange-red light like magma illuminating the numbers, appearing particularly mystical in the dim room.
