Twenty minutes later.
Richard was sitting in the carriage, arriving back outside the courtyard gates.
Standing outside the door, he carefully sensed the situation inside and found it was all calm.
There really shouldn't be any issue, Abel must have been overly cautious... Richard thought, pushing the door open and stepping into the courtyard.
In the courtyard, Pandora was carrying a wooden bucket from the room, walking toward the center of the yard. There on the ground stood a bare stick—the magic wand vine bought from Rees.
Richard noticed the wide area of soil around the magic wand vine was damp, indicating it had already been watered plenty. Looking at Pandora's bucket full of water, he couldn't help but ask, "You wouldn't have been watering this magic wand vine since I left until now, would you, Pandora?"
