All three of them narrowed their eyes at the spirit, and Aliana pressed, "Why is it impossible to find her?"
"Because..." Edith paused briefly. "After I was blessed with a son, I watched him grow, only to see him fall gravely ill after he refused to give his blood as an offering to the D-Devil. I went back to that place to find her, hoping she could tell me how to reverse the curse... but all traces of her had disappeared."
Her eyes grew distant as she looked back into her memories. "Yet I refused to give up. As our family's wealth grew by the day, I poured vast resources into hiring manpower to comb the lands and the mountains. But strangely... the very people who had introduced me to her in the first place had no memory of her. They spoke as though she had never existed."
Edith swallowed hard. "It was as if she were a phantom of my imagination. She appeared only to give me precise instructions on how to get what I desired, then disappeared without a trace."
