The next morning I decided to play a team game.
I went outside the inn to train early in the morning.
"... Phew, it's still a beautiful day"
In the middle of an alley where there were still few people's streets, he took a light, deep breath.
Smells slightly like Iso.
It's still sunny today.
I hope this weather lasts until two days later.
If it rains, it will literally be watered down by the battle.
"……… O"
I was thinking that, then.
I found Mina's hindsight.
Was he awake too?
I thought I was the earliest up today, but you lost.
"Hmm?"
... Is that it?
You were in the back road.
What have you been up to?
"... you want to go"
Though it is in town, it is not distracting.
There seems to be a lot of security around here, but it could be.
We'll have to keep an eye out for anything that might be a little dangerous to our people.
I followed Mina, thinking so.
It was a walking trip, so Mina caught up right away.
"Mi-"
So I tried to speak to her.
but I realized there was someone on the spot other than Mina, so I decided to see how it went for a while.
"Is he... Meermill's...?
Mina was in the back alley, talking to a girl named Krull who introduced herself yesterday.
Why are those two meeting in such an unpopular place?
Something intimate.
But surely Mina didn't tell you yesterday that she was meeting that girl for the first time?
What the hell is going on?
"Am I... What are you doing here at Meermill?
"Yeah... I don't know... I'm just going to attack the underground labyrinth..."
"Huh? You attack the underground labyrinth? Isn't that Bakka?
"Yep..."
... Something about a kid named Krull, you have such a bad attitude.
Looks like Mina's confused too.
"Until a while ago, you were the first kid to say," Me, I've never done VRMMO or anything like that. "Why don't you go on an expedition to Meermill with the top group at Wolls? How well have you been following me?
"I'm not selling Mei... maybe you followed me here to say that?
"Right, bad?
"You..."
Oh, it looks like Mina's a little angry.
It must have been so unpleasant what Krull said.
"I came to this meermill, getting stronger. Please stop selling me feisty or some weird evil push."
"You got stronger... hey... you caught a guy around there anyway and even let him power leveling, didn't you?
"!... I don't know what purpose you're going to say that... but I know exactly what you're selling me a fight for."
Krulu and Mina began to stare at each other.
Yesterday, Agate and Takel stared at each other in a different way.
Is this an alley?
Rumor has it, is it a woman's battle?
... a little different.
"If you really came here on merit, you should be in the next team fight with your deputy general. I'll be out in the vice general, too."
"Yeah, fine. Lieutenant General? Let's do it."
Hey, hey, Mr. Mina.
You, as an athlete, aren't sure yet.
Can I buy words for sale?
"Hehe... I don't look forward to it in two days. I can make a mess of you in public."
"... which one of us is going to get bogged down?
Krull and Mina started laughing.
But my eyes aren't laughing.
Hey, hey, hey, guys.
"Huh! Who's there!?
As I was trembling, Mina turned around and shouted.
Have you found it?
Well, I wasn't hiding anything, so it's perfectly fine if they find me.
"... Sin? What are you doing here?
"That's our line. You're mistaken for a spy if you're in close contact with your enemy here, Mina."
"Ugh..."
Mina laughed bitterly when she didn't just say she had been poked in the pain.
I told you half the joke, but what I said, it doesn't get wary and stylish.
As Agate was concerned last night, we want to avoid leaking information on this side to the Meermill Momentum.
I don't know, how would you feel if Mina and Krull were meeting with Kosokoso in hiding?
For a while, Mina would have been seen with suspicious eyes from us.
Poor, it could have been supposed to leak from members of the team battle candidates as well.
That shouldn't be where Mina wants it.
"I'm glad I found you, but if anyone else had found you, they'd have treated you like a traitor if you were bad."
"Oh, I'm sorry... I'm sure I was frivolous right now..."
"If you're reflecting."
Mina shrunk her shoulders and bowed her head sorry.
"So... you said Krull, right?
He turned his attention from Mina, who looked depressed, to Krull next.
As things stand, how she is our enemy...
"... Oh, you... were you listening to all of that right now?
"Huh?"
"I wanted to ask you, I'm asking you! Answer me!
"I was listening. I was listening."
Kurl suddenly stuck to me and stared at me in the shape of a ghost.
Hey, what is it?
I don't think it was a good idea to eavesdrop.
But it's your fault you had to do that in the first place.
"... how much?
"Yes?"
"I'm asking you how much you pay to keep your current conversation quiet!
What the fuck is this guy!?
You're gonna buy me for money!
... and why?
"I sell it in a clear image, but if rumors spread that we were talking about it, it wouldn't have stopped!
…………
No... I don't know, no.
A clear image.
My image is a lot different than mine, you are.
"Rumors don't spread. Nonsense."
"Really!? You shut the fuck up! Otherwise, you'll be in terrible shape!
"Heck..."
This guy's in some weird place...
Besides, if you want to seal your mouth, it's not just me, it's Mina.
"Anyway, if you keep staying here, you could be misunderstood. We're going back to our quarters."
"Oh, hey, Sin"
Weird and tired from the morning, I took Mina's hand and headed back to my quarters.
Really, what was that, that guy?
"Looks like Krull had a crude phase in the morning... I'm really sorry S..."
About a few hours after I witnessed Mina vs Krull's exchange, Misaki came to us to apologize.
We're having a proper conversation in the lobby of the crowded quarters this time, so you shouldn't be suspected of being a spy or anything.
Misaki has been seen with his eyes saying, "Meermill's guy is coming in with the scarecrow and the inn we're using," but let's have patience with that.
"Nothing, you don't have to apologize. I told him back, too."
"No, let me apologize."
"... if you really want to apologize, let a kid named Krull apologize, not you"
"Ugh... that's... a little tricky"
Mina still seems to be in a bad mood.
The misaki who came to apologize is being tazzy.
"Mina, don't let that sprinkle you all the way to Misaki."
"Oh, there's no such thing as a mess! Or why are you so mixed up in our conversation?
"Somehow."
When Misaki came to apologize, this guy brought me a story first.
And Mina and Misaki could have met via me, but at that point I would be an outsider.
So if you ask me why I'm still here, I'll have to say 'somehow'.
"So, that girl named Krull is also some kind of grudge against Mina?
I gently went through the mina with the jito eyes and asked Misaki about the kuru.
"He was... actually just like Mina, a former idol."
"Uh... ex-idle?
"Yes."
"Er..."
Ex idol...... I don't have it...
Well, I think it's better to look good, so it's not unnatural even if I was doing idols.
"Even so, I was kicked out of performing arts production just before I made my debut, so naturally, even if I didn't know it"
"He kicked me out... what did you do, him"
"No, she's got nothing wrong with herself."
"Oh, really?
What the fuck.
Because I said I was kicked out, I wondered if Krull had done something or not.
"Then why did they kick you out?
"It's because... she was a psychic."
"Ah..."
Mina began to darken her expression as soon as she heard Misaki's explanation.
Maybe it reminded me of the old days.
"I know Mina was breaking out in the idol industry as' Nova Idol Meena ', too. And... I also know that you got caught up in the alien exclusion movement and pushed Idol into retirement."
…………
On the planet we live on, there is an active global movement of alien exclusion.
Even in Japan, the wind against the aliens is quite harsh.
In the meantime, Idol 'Meena' was questioned as an alien.
And when the public eventually found out that it was true, it quickly became less popular.
There's more to clapping back.
Just because you're an imbecile, what is it?
We're criminals.
"... I mean, that kid Krull was picked by people in the industry who feared a case like mine would come out, before it became a problem."
"Exactly, S."
I see.
Is that what you mean?
The circumstances in which the Krull is involved in the Mina are generally understood.
"But isn't that a rebellion? Mina's not so bad."
If you insist, it's bad luck for the world.
Mina's not in the mood to be sold a fight.
"You're not convinced of a lot of things. I don't know... She was desperately taking lessons at the training center to be an idol"
"Hmm... right..."
You mean you wanted someone to spit out your anger.
I don't know, that's a bad story.
"But you know a lot about Krull."
"From childhood friends."
"Are you serious?"
Are you familiar with children?
I don't care how cute you are, I don't envy childhood friends with bad personalities.
"Oh, my God, keep up the good work, Misaki"
"... why am I being comforted?
This is how we learned about the past of a woman named Krull.
So what's up?
All of us psychics are discriminated against because of the difference in degree.