Satou's here. Talking with a friend you haven't met for a long time until you lose sense of time. When both of you laugh it off since neither remember who's the other one after talking for a long time, I wonder if that's also a form of beauty.
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"Tiger ears~?"
"It's the wolf ear person nanodesu!"
The ones behind us are the hero's followers, Rusus and Fifi.
Since I barely got in contact with them in the Duchy Capital, it would have been bad if I didn't have the information from AR reading.
Why are these girls who should have been in the labyrinth with Hayato here?
"Uwaa, that's some terrible injuries...."
Arisa becomes speechless after seeing the two's bodies.
Rusus has lost her knee to below and her right arm, while Fifi's right leg has disappeared to near the pelvic. Her right eye patch doesn't seem to be a fashion but something to protect the eye that has lost its eyeball.
"We made a slight blunder in our fight with the demon lord you see."
"We're hanging around here since we're useless in battle until the artificial arms and legs arrive from Saga Empire."
Rusus and Fifi ridiculed themselves with light tones.
Limb loss is not something that rare in labyrinth city Selbira, but as vanguards of the hero party, measures should have been taken by all means to recover them.
"Did something happen to Loreiya-sama?"
I uttered the name of the holy magic quiet-type big-breasted beauty in the hero party.
She should be capable to recover limb loss, but if she had died, then perhaps they're low on elixirs.
"That girl is still with Hayato."
"With Rin and Merry too."
I'm bothered that they didn't mention Miss Wiyaryi the long-earkin archer.
"You two, this is not something to talk about in this traffic."
There was a girl with short stature behind them, I didn't see her before since she was hidden by the two's heights.
According to AR reading, she's also one of the hero's followers, Nono the secretary.
I often talked with her in our telecommunications, but she feels different than during the calls.
She's unexpectedly short, her height is about between Arisa and Lulu.
Her face matches her age and her body line is undulated enough, so she's probably never mistaken for a child.
"Viscount Pendragon, please forgive our rudeness."
Nono who's more expressionless than Nana bows her head and apologizes to me.
It seems there's a custom to bow one's head when you apologize in Saga Empire.
In order to continue the talk, or rather, to hear the present situation of Hayato and the others, we went with them to the inn they're staying.
"Gi~?"
"There's Darry too nodesu."
"Nn, correct."
The children are looking at a carriage with the Pendragon House Crest.
I can't see Lulu anywhere, but according to the map, it seems she's in the rest area where the coachmen gather.
"You're right. Maybe that building is the administration office?"
I nod to Arisa's question.
"Can you tell Lulu that we're in this inn?"
"Nn, understood."
I was asking Tama, but the one answered was Mia who beat her flat chest full of confidence.
I let Mia be the messenger and ask Tama and Pochi to go with her just in case.