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It's all my fault. Yeah, it's all my fault, too.

Never let it be known that I didn't know you existed. I can't let that dim his smile.
The most important thing to me is Cytly, Cytly.

Citri says in a very good mood, as if he's happy to be of use to me.

'By the way, for your information, was five boxes of ...... enough for you?

'Five boxes? Hmm, hmm, ............ I wonder?

Citri, I think you're over-preparing. I don't think the ...... fox-faced apparition wanted that many boxes.

I looked around the ship, taking in the words of the languid and cheerful Cicely. There was still no sign of Therum or Kecakka, nor any trace of them.
It's a good idea to take a look at the website and see if you can find any useful information about it.
It's hard to imagine a mage of Telm's caliber not being able to use flight magic. I'm sure he's still alive. I just wanted to make sure he was alive. If Telm succeeded in assassinating His Majesty, it would be my fault for bringing him in and letting him go because of me.

Just then, my stupid ears suddenly caught a small noise. Sitri rolls his eyes and looks at me.

The noise was right in front of us - in the cargo hold, one of our destinations. Of course, we had already searched the area for Telm before the ship went down.

The cargo hold is really an empty space. Normally, it would be a place for storing luggage, but this time I had brought a huge amount of preserved food, so the space was almost completely occupied by them. Some of them were stored in each room, but the space was still full. There was hardly any place to hide.

d*mn, he should have brought Lucia or Ansem. Sitri was not weak, but he was the rear guard. He'll have a tough time against the Telm.
He assumed that there was no chance that Telm and the others were hiding on the ship.

Citri gingerly pulls the water pistol from his waist. I, with my warding finger, precede Citori and open the door to peer inside.

The cargo hold has not changed much since I last saw it. Unlike the other rooms, the cargo in the cargo hold is fixed in place, just in case. The crates piled high were still intact and had not collapsed.

We cautiously entered the room. I looked around the room, but found nothing suspicious. Could it be the noise outside?

'Don't worry, it was just my imagination...'


Just as I told Citrie this, the lid of a large wooden box piled in front of me opened without a sound.

The first thing I saw was a white pointy thing.

Opening the lid from the inside, he raised himself up and saw a child in white wearing a fox mask. In his hand was a large fried bean curd.
Its face turned toward me. I just blinked.

'............?'



Use ...... chopsticks, chopsticks in ...... your hand, it's not polite.


The fox face looks at me and carefree eats the fried tofu. I walked up to the box with a smile on my face, pressed my head lightly, and popped the lid on the box.

I took a deep breath and lifted the box with a single breath. It was a wooden box, so it had a certain weight to it, but it weighed as if it contained nothing.
No, in fact, the box is empty. It is a box that contains nothing. He looks back at Sitri and smiles.






'..................,' he says, 'nothing wrong. Let's get this stuff out of here. ............ Maybe five boxes weren't quite enough.'

Maybe it was the heat that gave me the illusion. Let's get the stuff out of here and get back to the city.
Maybe you're stressed out. I need to have a sweet, cold drink and play with the carpet. .......

'No, you're going to take him alive. ...... Crye, you're the best. ............ I can't do that.



I tried to pretend that nothing had happened, but Citri said with a slightly drawn expression. I don't know what to do about this. .......