Both individuals attempted to speak simultaneously, but they stopped as well. From within the black fog not dissipated by the Red Butterfly, came muffled footsteps. Someone was approaching.
The girl in the black dress's expression turned sour instantly; Shard thought for a moment that she might obliterate the village entirely.
"Someone has come to interrupt us."
She was about to command the seemingly harmless Red Butterflies to attack, but Shard quickly grabbed her hand to stop her:
"Let's see who it is first."
The girl in the black dress suppressed her anger and reluctantly nodded with a forced smile:
"Very well, sir."
With a gentle lift of her left hand, the scattered Red Butterflies gathered around them. Although they didn't land, they enveloped them.
"I've heard that under the swarming of these red butterflies, other people cannot see or hear us,"
the girl in the black dress explained.
