"What do you mean?" Kouhei asked.
He had honestly thought that the witch might have some kind of answer to their problem. Petra had been around for long enough to know things that ordinary people could not even begin to imagine, so Kouhei had naturally assumed that bringing the problem to her would at least give them some direction. Apparently, however, even Petra was having trouble finding an answer to something that seemed to exist outside the boundaries of what she considered possible.
"Do you really think I would have an answer to a question about something that, throughout my entire existence, has never happened before?" Petra asked. "Even during the prehistoric era, when the world was still considerably different from what it is now, there was no situation recorded that would give me a direct answer to this particular problem."
