“Is it similar to your past?” Lyla asked and Hans flinched. After all, Hans used to relentlessly torment Zich when he was “in a situation that could drive him insane.” Hans stole a furtive glance at Zich, but Zich didn’t show any particular response.

“I don’t know. That’s just the information floating around here. Even if the story is true, I don’t sympathize with her.”

“It would be stranger if you help her after saying that she is pitiful.”

“You really do know me well.” Lyla clearly showed her displeasure when Zich smiled, and that made Zich laugh harder. 

“According to the rumors, it seems true that Elena Dwayne still hasn’t awakened her mana,” Zich stopped laughing and said, “You said that she definitely doesn’t have a level of mana that would prevent her from waking up her mana still, right?”

“Yeah. Since it’s not that her environment is inadequate, some external force is probably affecting her.” Lyla’s eyes shone. “I smell something.”

“It does. It smells really fishy.”

“But is there such a method? I don’t know of any method that could seal a person’s mana without them noticing.”

Since even Lyla didn’t know about it with her great amount of knowledge, it was surely a very rare...