.... ah."
Suddenly Roxy stopped.
She just came to a complete halt in front of a certain room.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, I was just thinking that my old room was around here."
The door to the room was open.
Nobody was inside.
There is only a desk and an empty unmade bed.
This room's occupant must have fled in haste. The bed is in disarray, the desk and floor is also a mess.
It must have been passed on to someone else after Roxy departed.
It had a strange lived-in feel to it.
It was another person's room now.
But since Roxy had lived there for a while, it probably meant something to her.
It is probably like the room I had lived in when I was Eris's tutor.
"Shishou, Roxy-dono, what's wrong?"
"Nothing. Roxy was just feeling a little sentimental after seeing her old room..."
"Didn't you just say we don't have time for sentimentality..."
Zanoba walked back to us with an amazed look on his face.
Then he stepped into the room with a 'fumu' and looked at Roxy.
"Roxy-dono had been living in the room next door back then."
"Ehh?"
A flustered Roxy opened the door to the room next to us.
When she compared this room with the one we had just looked at, she noticed something that made her blush.
"Heh, I made a mistake because of the darkness."
That Zanoba, he really humiliated Roxy there.
What is that guy even thinking?
If Roxy says that something is black, even if it is white, then it becomes Dark Matter.
"Shishou, why are you stepping on my foot?"
"My foot slipped a little."
"I know Shishou adores Roxy-dono, but it would not make sense to be immersed in sentimentally for another place all together."
You are the worst.
Stamping on your foot isn't going to be enough for me to forgive you.
However I am deeply moved hearing about a place where Roxy used to live.
If the metastasis event had never happened, could it have been that I would have just ended up settling in Shirone?
"Let's hurry ahead."
On Roxy's prompting we continued on.