Clare searches in Hanel for Raki. At a local inn, she discovers that Claymores are in town. Up from her room, Clare sees four Claymores walking past the inn. The leader, Jean, almost spots her, despite Clare's Yoki-suppressing pills. Jean leads an Awakened Being Hunting Party to Mount Zakol, site of an abandoned castle—the "Witch's Maw"— and the hideout of Riful of the West, and her consort, Dauf.