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Though the two of them had looked through the base the one Black Bull they were not able to find yet was actually their Captain.

"I thought he was outside with mostly everyone else," Nero asked Asta

"Though so as well but turns out he was not thereafter all maybe he left earlier or something" he said.

That was possible as after all Finral did not seem to be amongst them either.

"Might have gotten Finral to take him somewhere or left on his own" Nero suggested.

Though he used Finral a lot to get around it was not like he could use a broom to fly somewhere himself. As he had done so quite a few times in the past but Finral did make getting to places very easy afterward. Not sure if he was seen using a broom to fly himself as he uses his magic to get himself and others around from one place to another.

"Just go a check around again as if he was flying when that wave struck there is a chance he could have fallen out of the sky," she said.

Shocked at this Asta quickly left to go see and make sure that was not the case at all.

Sighing as this once again meant that she was the only one able to move amongst the Black Bulls again. Though she could not help but wonder just how much had changed thanks to that huge wave of mana. If reality really had been changed for everyone other than Asta, making so that they were always statues instead of people. What happened to the past as a result did all of that no longer exist.

'Do not think about just like Asta said' she thought to herself.

Nero knew that nothing would come of it as she went back to the kitchen and just ate some of the food that Charmy had cooked before being petrified like everyone else. Not thinking why it had the same effect as her normal cooking than went back to where Noelle was now standing outside of Asta's room.

"Huh!?" Nero gasped as she noticed something was different about Noelle from just a few minutes ago.

It was something that she would not have missed and nor would have Asta either when they were here before either.

On the petrified Noelle's head were a pair of curved, ram-like horns. They were there on the sides of her head side similar to the single horn that Asta has whenever he is in his Black Form. They were even stone like the rest of her was and seemingly fused to her head.

Than Nero realized something that is that she felt that something was missing. She went to touch her own head and noticed that the horns she grew from using too much Forbidden Magic were gone.

"That should not be..." Nero says before she was interrupted by a flash of Anti-Magic that covers her entire body for an instant.

Once this instant was over Nero did not finish what she was saying because she could as she stood there petrified once again.