 Lithia: ....... Rift: Lithia....- Rift: Why didn't you say anything? We could have worked out something together.
- Lithia: I didn't want to worry them... and I knew Mathi would start nagging...
- Rift: ... That's your reason?! Are you going to jump into a fire pit to avoid my nagging next time?
- Lithia: Haha, it's not a fire pit, but I suppose I jumped into the Rift. I learned my lesson, so can you let this one slide?
- Lithia: ... I was careless. The curse didn't feel that bad in the beginning.
- Lithia: I had a feeling that it wasn't going to harm me in any way.
- Lithia: And I thought this power might be a way to accelerate Joy's research.
- Lithia: The process of removing impurities from Chrysona is the key to the research... But I haven't made much progress on that front. I couldn't increase the purity because I didn't have enough mana.
- Lithia: But in order to eat, sleep, and continue with the research, I need to earn money when I can... Whenever I can.
- Lithia: There's not enough time to focus on studying...
- Rift: .......
- Lithia: Hehe, I remember Mathi got in trouble because he drank a potion that supposedly increased one's mana.
- Rift: Oof... Do you have to bring that up again?
- Lithia: I'm just saying, even though I teased him a lot, I'm no different.
- Lithia: Sigh... Accepting a bad case and leading my friends to danger, falling in here...
- Lithia: When you're desperate, even a road down the cliff looks like a shortcut.
- Rift: ... That spirit may not have had bad intentions, but it is a wraith.
- Rift: A result of strong desire, obsession, and grudge.
- Rift: Even if they have no ill intentions, it's not easy to control someone else's desire. You know that.
- Lithia: ...... Yeah. I'm painfully aware, now.
- Rift: ... You might get depressed if we linger on this topic, so let's talk about something else.
- Rift: I wonder what that statue was? It must have been made with the same purpose as that Rift in the lake... I wonder where it was supposed to go?
- Rift: Remember? When we got off the ship, we tried to find that recipient to pay for the destroyed statue.
- Lithia: Yeah. But in the end, we never learned where it came from, nor its destination.
- Lithia: ... I have a feeling, that the statue served its purpose when it caused disturbance on the ship.
- Lithia: The stow aways were just there at the wrong time at the wrong place, but I'm sure the effects would have spread throughout the ship in time.
- Rift: I think so, too. Considering what happened to that Naius at the lake... You might have stopped it before it became a bigger problem.
- Lithia: I suppose that's a silver lining... Ah.
- Rift: Did you remember something?
- Lithia: Come to think of it, I remember Vera saying something about being able to get a ship if she showed her brooch in Denice.
- Lithia: So... Originally, that statue was not meant to be on the same ship as Vera.
- Rift: That's also depressing.
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Evacuation
