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CONTENTS че CHAPTER 36 + 003 CHAPTER 37 + 041 CHAPTER 38 + 077 CHAPTER 39 + 111 CHAPTER 40 + 145 WITCH HAT ATELIER + KAMOME SHIRAHAMA
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JUST AS EASILY AS IT KEEPS US WARM AND ALIVE. Е ИИ ! Й | E ( 7 Жұ # ሥሪ 2 „264 г SOMETHING BAN u I$ SCARY, N I SAY, EMBRACE FEEL SAFE, | COMFORTED. 7 WHY, YOU CAN EVEN SLEEP SOUNDLY WHEN IT'S AT YOUR
AE CAN YOU HEAR ME... ?! WILL THERE EVER COME A DAY WHEN I САМ SLEEP SOUNDLY...?
JUST NOW, I WAS CERTAIN I HEARD HER CALLING OUT TO ME... FITTING SUCH DREAMS WOULD PLAGUE ME IF I'VE BEEN BROUGHT BACK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. / COCO...? vee MUST'VE BEEN A TRICK OF THE MIND. TINGED LIGHT... THE SCENT OF SALT... SEEMS I'M AT THE GREAT HALL. AND IN THE HEALING SPIRE, NO
IN THE NAME AH. = ... SOME OF... YEAH, ABOUT MANNER OF THAT. FIDGETING ICEPACK, I SUPPOSE...? SHE SAYS IT'S A WORK IN PROGRESS. EVERY TIME SHE PUT IT ON YOUR FOREHEAD, YOU TOSSED T AND TURNED. Да THAT JUST MADE HER ALL THE MORE DETERMINED \ TO POLISH UP GOODNESS. I CAN EVEN HEAR THE RAGING TIDES— THAT’S COCO’S INVENTION. THE EVER-FLOWING ICEPACK.
I SUPPOSE THAT'S WHY I FELT HER PRESENCE 50 STRONGLY. DON’T TELL ME THEY WERE APPREHENDED BY THE ORDER BACK AT THE THEY'RE ASLEEP IN THE NEXT ROOM OVER.
FROM THE SOMBER LOOK YOU'RE I THOUGHT PERHAPS SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED TO THEM. QIFREY... TELL ME SOMETHING, WOULD OH, THANK GOODNESS. THEY’RE „MC V0ს SAY YOU'RE AFRAID... MEAN YOU'RE AFRAID FOR THEIR SAKES, RIGHT?
WHAT /5 COCO TO YOU? AN APPRENTICE YOU'VE SWORN TO PROTECT? OR 15 SHE A MEANS TO AN END— A CLUE TO HELP YOU CHASE DOWN THE BRIMMED CAPS? BE STRAIGHT WITH ME.
QIFREY?! QIFREY IS ENTANGLED COULD YOU SAY THAT? 2
„THAT I FEAR HE MAY BRING YOU CLOSER TO THEM... «oe RATHER THAN ENSURE YOU REMAIN FAR AWAY. NO! I SAW HOW BADLY MASTER QIFREY GOT HURT! HE RISKED EVERYTHING TO KEEP US SAFE! IT ISN'T HIS FAULT THE BRIMMED CAPS KEEP ATTACKING US. 5 BECAUSE 1...
IF IT 16 Z INDEED YOU Де») “ot THEY ARE : (ს! AFTER... „16 THAT NOT QT ALL THE MORE IT PAINS ME ща. ከ REASON TO ZARZ REMAIN IN THE TO SAY THIS, BUT I MUST WONDER x ېن ا ۹ SAFETY OF : ዲኣ THESE WALLS? IF QIFREY’S SHOW : OF PROTECTION... : NIS ...15 BUT PRETENSE TO UNLEASH HIS OWN DEEP-SEATED GRUDGE. || | | NO CIRCUMSTANCE Їнэ m THE SLINGS CAN JUSTIFY USE ЙІ GRE AND ARROWS OF AN APPRENTICE ! me Fall NY HE SUFFERED IN TO HER MASTER’S "Wil NS DAYS PAST, HE OWN ENDS. 1 A HAS LONG SINCE Е СОМЕ ОР АбЕ.
I'M SORRY... MAYBE I'M DID 7 NOT SUPPOSED SOMETHING TO ASK THIS... HAPPEN... BUT... ... BETWEEN MASTER QIFREY AND THE BRIMMED CAPS? I SEE THE MAN SPEAKS PERNAH? LITTLE OF ~ HIMSELF. «IT WOULD BEHOOVE YOU TO HEAR WHAT THERE IS TO
IN THE FOREST OF NIGHT, THE FOREST OF DARK, THE SCELET FOREST OF THRISTAS... WILL ТНЕМ HUNT ТО NA | “АЧ ውር MEE S INTO ^ THE ENDS у : | AN OF THE En WORLD, IF AY саги MER. қ 2) ТНЕУ ҮҮЕРЕ MM Ju : 22 RIGHT سمو USABLE W i : TRACES! WERE HERE. THAT MUCH IS PLAIN. BUT WHAT BUSINESS DO THE BRIMMED CAPS HAVE AMONG THE BOUGHS OF THE FOREST OF SHADOWOF DEATH.
A TRIFLE. I ONLY WISH I COULD DO MORE. ANY TIME THE ORDER CALLS, IAM MOST HAPPY TO ASSIST. BELDARUIT, YOUR ASSISTANCE 15 MOST APPRECI- ATED. d x 2801) NO NX „ს 65У ኒ- ЖИ) წ | dm > p» A | | i WIM EE | 7555 ! a f + III | ІШІ | | ІШІ) | | 1 | un | 15 THERE ANY PLACE MORE FIT TO CONCEAL DARK ARTS? CALLS THIS A TRIFLE? RAIN ACROSS THIS WIDE A SPACE?
ቅ ከ1. L THING? INDEED. AND THERE'S MORE JUST AHEAD. IT'S HARD TO MAKE OUT AGAINST THIS INFERNAL BLACKNESS, BUTIAM SURE OF IT. BRING THE GUIDANCE ORB/ GET SOME INSIDE BEFORE IT'S LOST TO THE RAIN/ ! STRONGER 1 ТНАМ BLOOD ITSELF/
IT'S POINTING... CORPSE OR HIDEAWAY? ሠሪ | ! ү |
qu NOTHING BUT A CASKET. I SMELL NO STENCH OF A ROTTING CORPSE... - THOUGH THE RAIN 15 FALLING HEAVILY ENOUGH TO POOL ON THE CASKET'S SURFACE. WHAT LIES IN WAIT?
CAN YOU SPEAK? WHAT IS YOUR NAME? GIVE HIM QUICKLY! IS HE ALIVE?! CAN YOU HEAR ME?
НЕ ТООК IT FROM ME... THE BOY HAD BEEN INTERRED ALIVE, LEFT TO PERISH IN DARKNESS. WITH RIGHT EYE PLUCKED AND SECRETED AWAY... WITH MIND WIPED, 50 THAT HE PROVIDE NO CLUE TO GIVE CHASE... THAT... „. WAS QIFREY'S STATE WHEN HE CAME INTO OUR CARE. 22
BUT PITIFUL WAS THE SIGHT OF A CHILD BEREFT OF EVERY GIFT BUT LIFE ITSELF. SS | = ნ | fr FORTUNE დ SMILED ON HIM, THAT HE WAS FOUND ALIVE... WITHOUT ANY TRACE OF INK SCRAWLED UPON SKIN. x / THE ORDER o ЫГ Aa SOUGHT ТО IBATTED | | С SCRUB HIS AMYAL | IR სას | MIND AGAIN, р | ТО HAVE HIM LIVE IN THE x OUTSIDE | ARE YOU MAD, BELDARUIT?/ YOU, I AM MOST EARNEST. YOU SHALL аг 052“ > шаа STUDY THE | ` nn — ale هپ رش a ~ WAYS OF a _ RECEIVED o THE WITCH WITH ME. HIM AS MY APPRENсве
I CAN'T BELIEVE MASTER QIFREY WENT THROUGH ALL THAT... NO ONE CAN SAY. ...AND THE BUT IT DID NOT FATE OF HIS STOP HIM FROM RIGHT EYE. ATTEMPTING TO UNCOVER THE EVENTS OF HIS PAST... IT PAINED ME, WATCHING HIM SNEAK AWAY, NIGHT AFTER NIGHT, TO SCOUR THE WORLD ABOVE FOR ANY CLUE OF THE HIS HATRED 2-5 BRIMMED CAPS. RAN DARK, AND WHILE HE 13 БЕРГЕЙ DEVELOPED ONE DEAR FRIENDSHIP, IT DID NOT ALLEVIATE THAT... DESPERATION
ULTIMATELY, HE CAME TO THE TOWER OF TOMES, WHERE HIS SEARCH ABRUPTLY I DARED HOPE ENDED. HE HAD AT LAST FORESWORN HIS AWFUL PAST. DID YOU SAY THE TOWER OF THEN THAT MEANS HE'S BEEN INSIDE! BUT WHY DID HE STOP SEARCHING? DID HE FIND SOME KIND OF ANSWER IN THE TOWER?
MY BELIEF THAT GOING THERE MADE HIM REALIZE... oe EVEN IF HE WERE TO LOCATE HIS LOST MEMORIES AND EYE... „.НЕ COULD NEVER HOPE TO RECLAIM THEM INTO HIS BEING... eee WITHOUT TURNING TO THE DARK ARTS.
QIFREY KNEW IN WALKING SUCH A PATH... „„ НЕ STOOD TO LOSE EVERYTHING ONCE MORE. IT WOULD COST HIM HIS KNOWLEDGE OF MAGIC, THE FRIENDSHIP HE'D NURTURED— ALL THAT HIS NEW LIFE HAD BESTOWED. HE STOOD I HOPE YOU AT THE SAME NOW SEE... IMPASSE THAT YOU DO NOW. DANGER IS TO BE HAD IN BLITHELY APPROACHING THE BRIMMED CAPS. WIELDING THE PEN TO DRAW FORBIDDEN
WHAT IF FORBIDDEN MAGIC IS THE ONLY CHOICE YOU HAVE? WHAT IF THERE'S SOMEONE YOU WANT TO HELP, | MORE THAN ბ ANYTHING... МИ V./ BUT NONE OF TEE. THE SPELLS YOU V 4 TRY ARE ABLE TO 0 : ; SAVE THEM?! WHAT IF YOU GET TO THE TOWER, AND YOU FIND THAT THERE /SN’T АМ ANSWER INSIDE?
NO CHOICE BUT TO GIVE UP? „. THAT MAGIC 15 NO MIRACLE? THAT IT 15 NOT A POWER MEANT TO GRANT ANY WHEN THAT HAPPENS... DOES EVERY WITCH... UPON FIRST PICKING UP THE PEN, DID YOU NOT LEARN... WISH YOUR HEART 122 DESIRES?
THAT WHICH CURES ANY AFFLICTION „МАУ AS EASILY BESTOW IT. IT 15 MY BELIEF, COCO, THAT THERE SHOULD BE A LIMIT TO WHAT MORTAL HANDS CAN GRASP. IT IS BETTER FOR US THAT WAY. ... BACK AT THE ATELIER... ce WHEN I LEARNED YOU’D TAKEN HER ON, YOU SAID THAT LOSING COCO WOULD MEAN LOSING YOUR ONLY CLUE.
THIS NEVER WAS ABOUT IT’S ABOUT WHAT SHE CAN DO FOR YOU AND THE THINGS YOU'RE AFTER. ولWA, Ж Қ | ብ vee WHERE 15 THIS COMING FROM? FIX UP YOUR SPECTACLES, YOU KNOW? THEY GOT SMASHED UP PRETTY GOOD IN ROMONON.
КЕМЕМВЕК HEARING ABOUT A SEAL ETCHED INTO THE IT'S WHAT YOU'D USE TO PROTECT THE EYES IF THEIR SIGHT 15 GOING. I'D KNOWN ABOUT THE BLACK LENS. THE OPACATING SPELL YOU USE TO HIDE YOUR MISSING EYE. PRETTY SURE THIS DIDN'T USED TO BE DESIGNED TO BLOCK OUT HARSH LIGHT.
IS THIS IS THIS WHY? THE REASON YOU WERE 50 EAGER TO GIVE CHASE TO THOSE GUYS... eee EVEN WILLING TO ABANDON YOUR APPRENTICES IN ROMONON? IS THIS THE ... YOU REASON... TOOK HER ON WITHOUT TELLING ME SINGLE A THING? DON’T LIE TO ME, QIFREY. STANDING TO LOSE THE ONLY SIGHT YOU'VE GOT LEFT SEEMS LIKE A REAL FINE REASON... „. TO PICK UP THE SEARCH THAT YOU RENOUNCED ALL u YEARS PLEASE! OLRUGGIO, I—
TO BLAME FOR THIS. THAT, AND... > ረሙ Mg SHE'S TRULY SO CLEVER! LV QUITE TALENTED, SO QUICK TO ს \ YOU SEE? REMEMBER! || KR = | ს 1 TER —. 4, ES
I TRIED TO HURRY AFTER IT’S COCO! I, ERM... SEEM TO HAVE LOST HER. VENTURED OUT ON HER OWN. ` Jm ÉZ u NN WHAT IDEAS DID YOU PUT IN HER HEAD?! YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN HOW EASILY SHE LOCATED THE DOORKNOB TO THE WINDOWWAY PARLOR!
I SIMPLY ANSWERED HER QUESTIONS. I EXPLAINED HOW TO RESCUE SOMEONE WHO «ТО GUESS ALL THAT YOU TOLD HER! I HAVE TO BRING HER BACK...
SHE TOOK THE ლიო WINDOWWAY. I : SHE COULD BE WE DON'T HAVE ! NDA THE FIRST IDEA ра = : ANYWHERE. WHERE TO START LOOKING. I BELIEVE... гн THERE'S ONLY ONE PLACE SHE'D TRY TO 60.
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CUN HOW COULD I LET MYSELF THINK SUCH A THING? IT'D BEA LOT FASTER „.ВИТ SOME- THING TELLS ME FLYING WOULD Ma" BE ANY- THING BUT IF ONLY I COULD MAKE ALL THE WATER VANISH. LIKE WHAT HAPPENED AT THE STAIRCASE RIVER—TURN EVERYTHING TO SAND...
IMAGINE WHAT A SPELL LIKE THAT WOULD DO... „. ТО ALL THE FISH AND LITTLE CREATURES WHO CALL THE LAKE HOME. AND BESIDES, A SPELL LIKE THAT WOULD BE ENORMOUS. I DON'T HAVE WHAT IT TAKES HOW DID THINGS AT THE RIVER TURN OUT LIKE THAT, ANYWAY? ISTILL DON'T I'M NERVOUS UNDERSTAND. AND SCARED, AND IT'S ; EATING ME UP I 7 FROM INSIDE. UNDERSTAND ANYTHING.
IF I CAN JUST MAKE IT THERE, MY ANSWER'S SURE TO BE INSIDE. MASTER QIFREY = WOULDN'T LIE, = WOULD HE?
SHE'S GOT QUITE THE MEMORY. BUT ARE WE CERTAIN THE TOWER IS THE OBJECT OF HER FLIGHT? IT’S ASTOUNDING. SHE ONLY SAW ME OPEN THE WAY TO THE TOWER ONE TIME. AND YET SHE SOMEHOW MEMORIZED THE CORRECT COMBINATION. DO NOT TAKE LIGHTLY THE LENGTHS A CHILD WILL GO FOR THE THINGS SHE LOVES!
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THE MONSTERS OF THE LAKE HAVE CAUGHT SCENT OF INTRUDERS... AND THEY SEEM TO BE CONCENTRATING THEIR ASSAULT n НАТ ON THE FAR MOST LIKELY WHERE SHE 15!