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[X] Embrace her tightly.
[X] Your castle in the Hakurei Boundary.

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There is no need for words. He embraces her tightly in his arms. Her eyes widen in surprise at this sudden gesture, but she immediately returns his embrace. They stay like this for several minutes before letting go.

"I've waited years for you to say that," Grimnir says.

Marisa chuckles at him.

"My apprentice has become quite powerful ~ze," she says. "You even tamed that Nightbug girl, didn't you?"

He smiles lightly as he thinks about his own apprentice.

"She was quite a handful at the start, but she turned out to be quite reliable."

"I hear that the girl is smitten with you ~ze," Marisa says as she pouts. "Perhaps you are only interested in youkai girls?"

He sighs at the black and white magician.

"Don't listen to those unfounded rumors," he says. "She is like a sister to me."

"So that's how it is ~ze," she says as she pretends to cry. "I've been discarded in favor of a little sister. You're horrible ~ze!"

The two master magicians look at each other in silence for a minute. Then, they break out into laughter at the exact same moment. They make an oddly matched pair in this recently devastated wasteland.

He reaches out and takes her hand. She looks at him with a puzzled expression. He starts chanting a teleportation spell.

"H-hey! Where are we goi-"