While Snoc and Elena wandered around the city, Zich and Lyla watched them from afar. If the culprit appeared, they planned to jump in immediately. Only Hans was nowhere to be found. Zich had judged that he and Lyla were enough to capture the kidnapper, so he ordered Hans to investigate the city. Thus, Hans was going around the city and carefully searching the area for anything suspicious.

“Huh?” Hans went beyond the commercial district and reached a small stream crossing the city. There was a riverside neatly arranged with stones and a couple of stone bridges stationed there too.

‘She is…’

On the bridge, a woman stared blankly at the flowing stream below her with one of her arms leaning on top of the handrail. The woman looked familiar, and Hans soon realized that he wasn’t mistaken. Her unique characteristic was her flaming red hair. 

‘Ms. Browning?’

He was sure that she was the person he had met in Violuwin before. They couldn’t be called acquaintances, and it wouldn’t be wrong for him to say that they just knew each other on the surface. Still, Hans remembered the conversation they had before and approached her. Additionally, since she was a skilled person—Browning could have noticed something strange about the city. Hans was about to initiate a conversation...