At Iris's lab, Elaine was helping Iris lift a box onto the table where other boxes lay.
"That's the last one," Iris said, exhaling deeply.
Elaine waved her hand, causing a golden glow to cover Iris. She instantly recovered.
She looked at herself then at Elaine. "Why are you wasting your mana?" she asked.
"I can't use it anyway since I can't leave here," Elaine said, shrugging her shoulders.
At that time, Elara, who sat silently on the chair, suddenly got up. Elaine turned to look at her. "Did something happen?" she asked in a concerned voice.
"Brother Cipher is here," she said.
"What?" Elaine asked, but before Elara could respond, the door opened and Cipher walked in.
"Iris, I'm here," Cipher said as he walked in.
"Cipher..." Elara shouted, wanting to charge toward Cipher, but Elaine caught her.
"Stop. Cipher is going to be talking in public today. Do you want to mess up his clothes?" she asked.
