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Though Asta was thinking about how to go about moving Noelle, Nero, Mimosa, and Rebecca should be his only problems as there was still everyone else that should be located within the Black Bulls HQ as well. Those that did not just seemingly go missing both before and after Asta was unconscious for an unknown amount of time after everyone was turned to stone.

Since Rebecca and Mimosa somehow moved from where ever they were previous to here. Asta was going to check on the rest of his squad members (Gauche, Zora, Finarl, Gordon, Grey, Manga, and Luck) to ensure that they had gone anywhere or could go anywhere while he was not looking. After all, if he can make Noelle, Nero, Mimosa, and Rebecca than what if someone or something could do the same just for others. That or what if whatever magic was used to petrify everyone in the first place allows the user to animate whoever they wanted. No one would expect there to be someone without mana in the world thus would prepare a countermeasure against it.

"What!? Where did everyone else go this time around" Asta yelled none of them were there anymore. It was like they just vanished into thin air.

The room that contained the remaining members of the Black Bulls that were accounted for was now gone. There was no way for Asta to know how this even happened as he could not sense magic or mana after all. Them being statues he could not sense their ki because well statues obviously do not have ki in the first place. At least with his current understanding of what ki is.

With everyone else having suddenly vanished on him, Asta than realized something yet the moment he went to go do he crashed into something hard.

Falling backward he looked to see that he ran straight into Noelle who was apparently the one animated at the moment from the ram horns on her stone head. Behind her, she carrying the others on a platform of black water.

'They sure react fast' Asta thought

He barely thought about going to check on them before they came to him instead. Probably with Noelle being the one to bring the others as she has the most mana between the four of them yet probably the worse control when she is not focused though.

It was not just the remaining members of the Black Bulls that went missing (minus Nero and Noelle) but even Yami's personal beasts were gone as well having not broken out their cage but seemingly just vanished as well. As if they were never there to begin with.

Thus adding another layer of mystery onto what was going on with the world at the moment as first everyone got petrified. Some of his friends ended up as spells in his grimoire with their nowhere to be found and now there were statues just vanishing without a trace.

However that when Asta realized there was one member that he checked on but did not leave with the others. That being Henry as he left him in his room not really sure if moving him even as the statue was a good idea. Having no mana meant that he could not be drained of it thus he never affected by Henry's natural and passive ability to drain mana from everyone around him. Though he was the only one this happened with though. For everyone else, theirs would be drained it just matter of how they deal with that is the difference.

Going to check on him he was in fact still in his room yet that when something strange began to happen as his grimoire started to glow than not only Henry's statue but the entire Black Bulls HQ vanished leaving him, Noelle, Nero, Mimosa, and Rebecca just out in empty lot where the house once was.

Opening up his grimoire once more, Asta flipped to a page where sure enough there was Henry's name. As it seems he had somehow acquired Henry just like how he the girls behind him. Though unlike them he was not with them but seemingly kept in his grimoire just like his swords when not in use. Even though he could only have one they activate and animated at a time though mostly unknown means to him.