Lively and bustling, each of us is talking to each other as we pleased as we go along.
[……How should I say this…… Well, I’m relieved that our group is increasing in size again.]
[Hahaha, it isn’t often that you run into soone you know into such a large venue after all. What are the odds of that even happening?]
[……No, it’s because of those odds that we’ve encountered you, Fors-san.]
[Now that you pointed it out, I’m feeling troubled. However, the map shows that we’re already near the middle-level, but I don’t really know what to do…… Unlike Tre-kun, even if I were to go to the middle-level, I just couldn’t go where Laguna is. As expected, I’d like to excuse myself from that place where the rulers gathered, and I would also be annoying everyone if I kept on following your group. However, I’m definitely going to get lost on my own, so I’m feeling troubled.]
[……No, well, that aside…… Fors-san, you could read a map?]
When Fors-san muttered that while looking at the map, I couldn’t help but ask her the question that popped into my mind.
[Oi, oi, as expected, please don’t treat as that much of a fool. I can at least read a map.]
[……Then, why do you get lost?]
[I’m the one who’d like to ask that…… I don’t really think it’s just that I personally don’t have any sense of direction. There definitely must be so external factors involved here, don’t you think? For example, a curse…… How soone who is capable of casting a curse without knowing it can see any benefit in leading astray is a mystery to though.]
I think that Fors-san, who gets lost in a straight path of several hundred ters, is already on a slightly different level of being directionally-challenged…… No, can soone who gets lost in a straight line still be called directionally-challenged? Just as Fors-san, I feel like it could already be called a curse.
Anyhow, Fors-san has no sense of direction, but she can read a map just fine…… Seriously, why is she getting lost?
As I was tilting my head together with Fors-san at her indescribably nonsensical problem, I suddenly heard a familiar voice.
[Kaito-san and the others…… and Tre-sama and Fors? What a strange group you have there. Rather, it seems like just like usual, Cento-sama and Cien-sama aren’t with you huh……]
[Oya? If it isn’t Hika- Neun, what a coincidence, eting you here. And the one beside you is……]
[Eh? This shorty is Fors? How did this happen? From what I know, High Elves don’t shrink when they grow older, do they?]
[Oi, oi, now this is quite a surprise. I’m deeply surprised…… I never thought I’d see you again after a thousand years…… Rather, it seems like you’re still alive huh, Hapti.]
Yes, it was the duo of Neun-san and Hapti-san that we encountered. It seems that they just registered each other’s hummingbirds when they t back in the royal capital, so I’m surprised that they used that to contact each other and go to the festival together.
Fors-san seed to be even more surprised than I was. Her tone of voice was the sa as usual, but her expression was tinged with astonishnt.
Seeing Fors-san’s reaction, Neun-san and Hapti-san lightly explained the situation, and even though Fors-san was surprised to see that Hapti-san was still alive, she was still happy to see her again.
[I see…… Well, strange coincidences really do happen. I’m also surprised that I t you two here. No, this festival is this big of a scale, so it wouldn’t be surprising for you two to attend, but I can’t describe my surprise when I saw you two walking together.]
[No, I’m more surprised to see the recluse Fors here, you know? Within the ti I haven’t you, have you finally beco an outdoor person?]
[Don’t get wrong, I’m still very much an indoor person…… I was brought here by Laguna, but she left alone to go to work. I was literally like a lost child on the roadside, when Miyama Kaito-kun found . But looking at the result, I guess you could say that it was a good thing. I suppose I should be grateful for this coincidence that I was able to see my old friend again like this. In that sense, I guess it would be thanks to Miyama Kaito-kun for finding . No, of course, I’m originally grateful to him for helping when I’m lost but……]
[Uwaaa~~ Just like usual, she still had that annoying way of speaking huh. Is this what happens when you beco too much of a recluse?]
[……It seems like you’re also just like usual, as relentless as ever.]
Hearing Hapti-san interrupt her words, Fors-san wryly smiled.
At that mont, Neun-san spoke to .
[I understand the situation. In that case, would you mind if Fors go with us? We’re planning to visit Laguna later, so it’s great that we t here.]
[Ahh, that’s a great idea. And thus, Miyama Kaito-kun, everyone, I really appreciate your help. I’ll make sure to thank you again in the future.]
[No, no, please don’t worry about it.]
Since Fors-san was wondering what she should do in the middle-level, Neun-san’s invitation seed like a perfect opportunity.
That’s alright and all that but…… I’ve already run into five people I know by the ti I’m about to go to the middle-level. Seriously, what the heck are the odds of this happening?
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