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Elayne walked out of her Domain with her party already formed and ready. Sailor, Norman, Blank, and Mark had joined her without hesitation. Granny Yaga preferred to stay behind for now and rest her old bones, while Shade and the Ghost Songstress, Dorothy, had also decided to accompany them on this next step.
"Ahhh~ What a wonderful… um…" Dorothy stopped singing midway through her soft melody, her translucent eyes widening as she took in the sight of the destroyed village around them. "Oh my… what tragedy…" she sighed, her voice filled with genuine sorrow.
"Yeah…" Norman nodded slowly, his skeletal frame shifting. "It was already like that when we got here… really awful, what that bastard did to this place… but well, he's dead now! So that's that… still… what he destroyed cannot be brought back no matter what."
Elayne nodded in quiet agreement. She quickly opened her Inventory Realm and dropped something she had carefully "collected" after the climax of her last battle.
