Chapter 10: You Were the Most Pathetic Witch He Had Ever Seen
About an hour later, Leon carried a bag of tools on his back and arrived at a spot halfway up the mountain side by side with Rena.
Rena once again glanced uneasily at the shovel and axe sticking out of Leon’s shoulder strap.
They had all been taken from her house.
The whole scene looked disturbingly like someone was about to be taken into the mountains, killed to silence them, and buried on the spot.
“Is there really a path into the labyrinth?” Rena asked softly.
“Keep quiet.”
Leon held up the lantern and climbed a short distance up a gentle slope along a narrow path carved into the mountainside.
He kept pushing aside the grass on the slope to inspect it, and finally discovered a small pit filled with loose gravel behind a clump of weeds.
He set down the bag, picked up the shovel, and began digging.